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Recorded Webinar: The Economic Implications of Covid-19 with Raghuram Rajan
Princeton’s Bendheim Center for Finance hosted Raghuram Rajan on Friday, July 24st for a discussion of the economic implications of Covid-19. Princeton’s BCF is running webinars on the evolving Covid crisis, and putting up its archives online, so check out their website to register for upcoming webinars.
Read MoreProf. Gibson recommends this podcast on “Sweatshops”
In this EconTalks podcast episode, Russ Roberts discusses sweatshop labor, and how people evaluate where to work, with Chris Blattman of the University of Chicago.
Read MoreProf. Bakija recommends this book: Economics in the Age of Covid-19
This book on the economic impacts of Covid-19, by Joshua Gans, is a work in progress. The book will evolve as our knowledge about the virus and our reactions to it change. Despite the ongoing nature of the project, the MIT Press has opened up access to an early version to facilitate the flow of knowledge and sharing of information during these unusual times.
Read MoreProf. Ashraf recommends: “Replication Redux: The Reproducibility Crisis and the Case of Deworming”
In this article, Owen Ozier of the World Bank examines the difficulty of reproducing the results of seminal experiments through the example of the debate around mass deworming interventions.
Read MoreBlog: Three Problems with Randomized Controlled Trials
This blog post on Brookings from Jeffrey Hammer covers three big reasons not to think of randomized controlled trials as the next “magic bullet” for development.
Read MoreVoxDev Podcasts: Experiments in the Long Run
Audio Content: Methods and Measurement Randomized Controlled Trials in the Long Run Hosted by Tim Phillips VoxDev Talks: Interviews with practitioners First aired on November 20, 2019. Edward Miguel of Berkeley is a co-author (along with Sarah Baird and Joan Hamory Hicks) with one of the 2019 Nobel laureates, Michael Kremer, on one of the…
Read MorePodcast: US-China Competition in Global Development
This podcast from Brookings Cafeteria talks about China’s growing clout in the world and some misconceptions surround its rise, the US-China strategic rivalry, and China’s role in a global rules-based order.
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