Fight Entropy

I have a  new working paper  out reviewing various methods, models, and assumptions used in the econometrics literature to quantify the impa...

The   Global Policy Lab   at  UC Berkeley  is now hiring multiple positions for a major research project at the nexus of  environmental res...

"The report by Chetty et al also suggests that geography and income percentiles interact in previously unknown ways. For instance, th...

1)  Dengue vaccine approved 2)  Gangs of New York (Revised edition) 3) " Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way th...

If you're looking for a place to catch up on the weekend's momentous climate treaty announcement , The Daily Climate's COP 2...

1)  David Evans provides another excellent conference roundup, this time for NEUDC 2015 2) No, Monsanto is not going on trial for crim...

How efficient are research agendas? Abstract: A scientist’s choice of research problem affects his or her personal career trajecto...

1)  "Dinosaurs, other than birds, are not kosher"  (via  Benjamin Kay ) 2)  "Tritium [...] spiked in the atmosphere 50 yea...

by Barry Saxifrage, more here . via Yaniv .

Kyle Meng  and I published an  op-ed in the Guardian today  trying to raise awareness of the potential socioeconomic impacts, and policy res...

1) Quantifying renewable groundwater stress with GRACE 2)  Dummies for Dummies  (via Kyle Meng ) 3) Freedmens' Bureau data were rel...

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

1) Why does rabies still kill 60,000 people a year? 2) Why OCaml? 3) A "modularity" explanation of the Cambrian explosion 4...

As long as we're on the joint topics of ways to end an abstract and social welfare: "Policies that redistribute income across ge...

Meanwhile, in excellent ways to end an abstract: "[The policy] would also generate a significant welfare gain from the ex-ante stand...

Distinguishing cause from effect using observational data: methods and benchmarks From the abstract: The discovery of causal relation...

1) The Elements of Data Analytic Style (pay-as-you-like pdf, via Eyal ) 2) Kerry Emmanuel on what we currently know about how tropical c...

Jeanet Sinding Bentzen has a new version of her working paper on disasters (mostly earthquakes) and religiosity: Acts of God: Religiosit...

As long-time readers of the blog may have noticed, posting has been a little light the past 12 months. Sol and I are aiming the rectify tha...

Jesse Shapiro* has some excellent slides on giving a good applied micro talk that are both specific enough to be of use for students prepp...