Legendary economist Esther Duflo received an honorary degree at Williams College at this year's graduation - we were delighted to welcome here at our Center for Development Economics, where @owenozier.bsky.social moderated a discussion with her and our CDE Fellows, thesis students, and faculty.
White people bused to inner-city schools in the 1970's were, as a direct result, more likely to become Democrats.
This effect lasted 40+ years!
codytuttle.github.io/busing_parti...
i would say that the strongest evidence against AI reasoning is how much they suck at writing stata code despite the documentation being online, because there just isn't as much training data to crib from
In this post in our series on climate and population projections we demonstrate how to generate fertility rates and to project a population using the DHS, a vital data source in many low-and middle-income countries. tech.popdata.org/dhs-research...
Two blog posts for you. One more recent by @olihanney.bsky.social here: voxdev.org/topic/import...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has a bit of a height advantage over his fellow honorary degree recipients at Harvard's commencement. #Harvard2025
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFIo...
Oh no. RIP. !!! I had not seen this in the news - is it somewhere? Hadn't he just released a book?
In the most recent issue of @restatjournal.bsky.social (direct.mit.edu/rest/article...), we (Kaspar Wuthrich and @karthik-econ.bsky.social) provide guidance on how to analyze and design experiments with factorial designs (or cross-cuts). A 🧵 below:
Congratulations @frankodhiambo.bsky.social !
The Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) Program was central in improving the evidence base for health policies and interventions, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa and Central & Southern Asia - figure by @aasli.bsky.social.
Our preprint on the termination of the DHS Program: osf.io/preprints/so...
Berkeley PhD to lead Nepal Central Bank #econsky kathmandupost.com/national/202...
Thanks for sharing Konstantin. Here's the paper John: arxiv.org/abs/2405.20604
And a more specific breakdown by topic (comparing 2000-2015 to 2016-2024):
Huge congratulations to @justsand.bsky.social and to Open Philanthropy. The perfect person for a historic challenge
Thanks for having me! This was a fun conversation to have. Hope folks find it helpful. Now I have something to send to anyone who asks me what it's like doing research at the WB!
We wouldn't have some essential everyday things without federal funding for science.
Today's @bostonglobe.com features my thoughts on the recent, rapid rise of private after school math tutoring.
TLDR: These classes have been valuable for our kids and others unchallenged by current school offerings, but also likely exacerabte inequality in math.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/12/o...
Ever wondered why some charts are more effective and engaging than others?
I’ll be going through all the theory, evidence and principles behind compelling data storytelling from this Wednesday.
Free to watch for anyone who is interested: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-fundam...
New review paper by Levy and Buchmueller:
“The evidence now unequivocally supports the conclusion that health insurance improves health.”
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
a little pick me up lol for the academics in the room
The short article "When health data go dark" about the DHS (Demographic and Health Surveys) is online at BMC Medicine: bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
here it is: www.customink.com/designs/metr...
or a succinct one: www.customink.com/designs/metr...
Excited to welcome @daveevansphd.bsky.social back to @cgdev.org. Dave embodies the best of CGD--innovative ideas on the big challenges grounded in data and rigorous research and making practical implementable suggestions.
Here is a free access link that should work for the next month! authors.elsevier.com/a/1k-Sl5bW6o...
Check out new work by our great colleague Greg Phelan, joint with alum William Chen! They show that integrating digital currency into the financial system can benefit households, but makes a banking crisis more likely.
doi.org/10.1016/j.jf...
What makes one economic outcome fairer than another – and who decides? ⚖️ Should cheap groceries come at the cost of underpaid workers? What IS fair?
In a powerful lecture at @uzh_ch, Maya Eden lays out an ethical framework for economic policy.
📺 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI8C...
...on-going DHS activities; (c) assessing the impacts of the DHS’ termination and potential reductions in international assistance to surveys and (d) devising sustainable long-term solutions to demographic and health data production."
unstats.un.org/iswghs/TaskF...
I know the UN Statistics Division had discussion about this in the last couple of months but beyond that I don't know specifics: "A task force is established under the Working Group to take actions on (a) ensuring access to existing DHS data as a public good; (b) securing funding to complete...
