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How much have oppressive norms been hurting US growth? In 1960, 94 percent of doctors and lawyers were white men. By 2010, the fraction w...

David Evans' coverage of last month's Annual Bank Conference on Africa  is a great overview of some fascinating recent applied rese...

This is a hard problem to answer well, but its certainly an interesting question. Quantifying causal mechanisms to determine how protected...

Jesse recently posted on our results for the economic and health impact of typhoons in the Philippines .  But in case you're feeling too...

Amir Jina and I were recently discussing the multiple literature reviews that have come out on environment and development topics lately, ...

Typhoon Haiyan as seen from space, Copyright 2013 JMA/EUMETSAT Last spring Sol and I finished up the working paper version of our paper...

There's a new working paper by Michael Greenstone and Kelsey Jack that's of obvious interest to FE readers: Envirodevonomics: A ...

USAID's Measure Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) are an extraordinary (free) data set on maternal and child health from around t...

Blum Center for Developing Economies  has a now program for Global Poverty and Practice Post Doctoral Fellows . (Applications deadline = J...

 Figure 1a: Hopefulness, 93rd percentile A few weeks ago the economics blogs and popular press picked up a forthcoming JPE paper on ch...

If you're in the Bay Area this weekend the Pacific Conference for Development Economics (PAC-DEV) will be taking place on Saturday at ...

Paul Niehaus  was presenting at USF's seminar yesterday and mentioned the following working paper by Bold, Kimenyi, Mwabu, Ng'ang...

There's a famous paper in development economics by Ted Miguel and Michael Kremer called "The Illusion of Sustainability" ( ung...

I have weddings on the brain since my lovely fiance and I are planning ours this year, so I thought it would be nice to do a "marriage...

I think this is important in many contexts (not just farming). For example, to harp on some of our recent themes, I don't think that mos...

Mushfiq Mobarak presented at the Columbia Sustainable Development seminar on Monday, and while I couldn't be there the paper ( pdf here...

I ran into this 2008 paper doing hurricane work with Jesse. The results are not extremely surprising, but I really liked how they displayed ...

[This is a guest post by first year students in Columbia's Sustainable Development program] As part of their coursework for the Huma...

There is capital and then there is Capital . These are some interesting recent NBER papers on the latter. Railroads and American Economic...

Limited Life Expectancy, Human Capital and Health Investments: Evidence from Huntington Disease Emily Oster, Ira Shoulson, E. Ray Dorsey ...