The five-minute video is here.
Published August 15, 2011
Category: Development
Published August 10, 2011
Altruism, Trust, and Living Standards
From a new paper in Economic Development and Cultural Change by Michael Carter and Marco Castillo:
Published August 9, 2011
Three New Papers on the Future of Randomization in Development Economics
These three papers were published last week in the August 2011 issue of the Journal of African Economies and they focus by and large on a possible marriage between structural models and experimental methods. By combining the empirical strength provided by randomization with research questions that go beyond simple impact evaluation, I believe this will represent a very important area for future research, and I am myself involved in a project of this sort.