Matt Collin over at Aid Thoughts has a good post summarizing some recent developments on the question of whether increases in food prices cause riots.
Published March 31, 2011
Category: Social Sciences
Published March 25, 2011
Chris Blattman on RCTs in Development Economics
Although I had seen the Glennerster and Kremer article in the Boston Review last week, I had saved it for later, as I was planning on reading it carefully so as to possibly assign it as an introductory reading in the development seminar I teach in the fall.
In a recent blog post, Chris Blattman has excellent thoughts on the article and on randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in general:
Published March 9, 2011
Math in the Social Sciences, Redux
In a post over at Brokering the Closure — which sounds like the name of a post-rock group, much like Ed Carr’s Open the Echo Chamber blog — Michał Bojanowski aggregates the discussion that has taken place so far on the use of mathematics in the social sciences: