Easterly on the Civil War in Development Economics
Michael Giberson William Easterly writes, “Few people outside academia realize how badly Randomized Evaluation has polarized academic development economists for and against.” That claim seems...
View ArticleJohn List’s $10 Million Crazy Idea Field Experiment in Education
Michael Giberson Bloomberg Markets Magazine has a feature on economist John List and his $10 million research project on education. Along the way we get an introduction to List’s work on field...
View ArticleExperimentation, Jim Manzi, and Regulation/deregulation
Lynne Kiesling Think consciously about a decision you contemplated recently. As you were weighing your options, how much did you really know that you could bring to bear, definitively, on your...
View ArticleEpistemology and Synthetic Market Design: Examples from Ecosystem Services
Some of the most illuminating work in market design lately has been in payment for ecosystem services (PES). These projects provide examples of the continuing relevance of institutions to economic and...
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