Because of social insurance and self-control. From a new working paper by Pascaline Dupas and Jonathan Robinson:
Published August 1, 2011
Marc F. Bellemare Posts
Published August 1, 2011
Back from Vacation
There have been few posts on this blog over the last week given that my wife and I were away on vacation.
Because I was applying for legal permanent resident status this year, we decided against international travel for our annual vacation, so we first went to Pittsburgh, where I was asked to talk about impact evaluation and had to pick up an award at the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association annual meetings. From Pittsburgh, we drove to Ithaca, where my wife and I met while we were in grad school, since it has been five years since we left. Here is proof that Ithaca is (still) gorges:
Published July 28, 2011
Chris Barrett Talks About Famine on NPR
Chris Barrett, who chaired my dissertation committee at Cornell and with whom I have co-authored a good number of articles, was on NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” yesterday to talk about the famine in Somalia. In case you missed it, you can listen to it here.