Agricultural and Applied Economics—Without Apology
Robert Jensen and Nolan Miller, who are famous for publishing what is perhaps the first paper credibly establishing the existence of Giffen behavior a few years ago have devised a new means for measuring hunger in developing countries.
From The Economist‘s Economics Focus column last week:
Does poverty lead to violence? That is the question Chris Blattman addressed a few weeks ago at a conference held at New York University. Chris writes:
Last weekend was the 25th anniversary conference of the Centre for the Study for African Economies (CSAE). As it had been three years since I had presented at the CSAE conference and it was a historical moment for the center, I submitted a paper for the conference.