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- New results from a 20-year follow-up on Progresa. Children whose parents received cash transfers in Mexico 20 years ago earn 15% more than those who didn't povertyactionlab.org/sites/default/…
- From a recent interview: Ashenfelter: "how do you feel about the way you historically were treated in the profession as a woman?" Goldin: "I spent six years at Princeton, and not once in the six years that I spent at Princeton was I asked to give a seminar"
- Oh shit. John "Most studies are false" Ioannidis comes for economics onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1111/… ht @UCBITSS
- Iran started a Universal Basic Income in 2010 - 28% of average income paid monthly for everybody. It had no negative effect on work (& increased work for women & self-employed men) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
- Astonishing results from Bhutan's first national lead poisoning survey. 76% of children have lead poisoning. unicef.org/bhutan/documen…
- Where did the industrial revolution start? Places with high skill but low wages journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…
- "Diversity caused high-income students to have more accurate perceptions of poverty, raised their concerns about fairness, and boosted their support for progressive redistribution." econ.jku.at/t3/veranstaltu…
- An RCT of giving bicycles to girls in Zambia found it - saved them an HOUR commuting to school each day - reduced dropout by 19% - reduced sexual harassment by 22% brookings.edu/blog/education…
- Credible causal (not correlational) evidence that female leaders managed the pandemic better papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
- "Projects developed in partnership with policymakers are 17-20% points more likely to result in policy change ... partnerships most often occur earlier in the term when political conditions are conducive to experimentation & reform" -- Cool paper by Alix Bonargent
- Here's a list of all the countries with no contact tracing (as of 13th May) United Kingdom Angola Bosnia and Herzegovina Estonia Greece Iran Iraq Nicaragua Solomon Islands El Salvador Turkmenistan Venezuela Yemen Data from @BlavatnikSchool bsg.ox.ac.uk/research/resea…
