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4.29.2011

May 6th-7th, 2011: Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Workshop in Sustainable Development

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LICRICE model for the global distribution of tropical cyclone winds Event Announcement: Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Workshop in Sustainab...
4.25.2011

TRMM Satellite Data

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Our colleague Amir points us to the great tropical precipitation data coming out of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Satellite . Lot...
4.23.2011

Mapping World Bank funds

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Anisa found this one:  The World Bank has made data on all its projects available.  They've even made a nice GUI for exploring it all: ...
4.20.2011

Karlan and Appel's "More Than Good Intentions"

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Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel's new book More Than Good Intentions (previously mentioned here ) is coming out tomorrow and Sol and I got...
4.19.2011

Kenneth Arrow on climate change and how times have changed

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Sol and I had the good fortune to hear Kenneth Arrow speak last week. In addition to being one of the most famous economists ever (see Arro...
4.16.2011

Even pirates need contracts

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My advisor,  Bentley MacLeod , has successfully convinced me that incomplete contracts are a central problem in both environment and develop...
4.11.2011

ARV recovery video

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Sol and I are both reading Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel's new book More Than Good Intentions these days. It's on behavioral solutio...
4.07.2011

Quick Hit: "The Long Island Express"

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Since I mentioned it during my talk with the HSES students on Tuesday, I figured I'd very quickly point out one of the more interesting ...
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4.05.2011

What empirical social science should aim for: lessons from physics

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I frequently complain that empirical social science is obsessed with estimating parameters (eg. demand elasticities) that are rarely compare...
4.02.2011

What have we learned about oil prices? Not much.

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[This is a guest post by  Kyle Meng ] With recent rumblings of political unrest in the Middle East, concern about rising oil prices have re...
4.01.2011

Welcome Stuyvesant High School students!

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So it looks like Fight Entropy is getting a few more special visitors these days. Welcome Stuy students! Sol and I have already set up a r...

Stata's new geocode function

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Our friend and colleague Reed Walker points out that there's a new Stata program called geocode that allows an internet-connected copy...
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3.31.2011

Two epic data contests

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Two major and exciting data analysis contests were announced (relatively) recently and I thought I'd point our visitors to them: The ci...

Personal accounts of climate-related conflict

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MediaStorm produced for this nice video story for  Yale's Environment 360  (there is a written discussion here  as well). For people ...
3.27.2011

Supplying Africa with climate data to fight disease

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Climatic suitability for malaria transmission. See more here .  In a Comment to Nature this week, M.C. Thomson et al. make the case th...
3.23.2011

ICPSR Social Science Data Repository

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In a recent visit to the library (looking for old Haitian census data) a librarian helped me use the I nter-University Consortium for Politi...
3.22.2011

Nature Climate Change Publishes first articles

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Nature Climate Change is a new, high-profile and interdisciplinary journal focused on climate change research.  Its first research article...
3.16.2011

Social Conflict in Africa Database

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The University of Texas at Austin has put together a new dataset to support conflict research in Africa . Some nice features of this dataset...

Sustainable Development Articles

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Our colleague James Rising points us to his newly coded up creation Sustainable Development Articles : I put together a site for collecting...
3.15.2011

Japan's damage

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The NYT has put together a solid interactive site to see aerial images before and after the recent events .