I am currently in Pittsburgh for the annual meetings of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA). Pittsburgh is a beautiful city, and I am glad I flew in early. On Sunday, I visited the Warhol Museum, which made me gain a whole new appreciation for the work of Andy Warhol.
I am here because I was asked to talk in a session on impact evaluation, which will be the topic of a post later this week. I am also here because Zack Brown and I won the award for Oustanding American Journal of Agricultural Economics Article for our article titled “On the (Mis)Use of Wealth as a Proxy for Risk Aversion.” Here is the abstract of the paper:
Brookings: Spectacularly Wrong on Food Prices
As an academic, I like the Brookings Institution. As an academic in a policy school, I like that they have a long history of conducting rigorous policy analyses and believe Brookings has contributed positively to public policy scholarship throughout the years. As a development economist, the Brookings Africa Growth Forum is one of the best conferences I have ever had the chance to attend.
But everyone is wrong from time to time, sometimes spectacularly so. From a piece posted on the Brookings Institution website back a few months ago: