Weekly links April 23: RCT pointillism, the evaluation winners curse, subsidizing farmers to use machines, phone surveys and income expectations, and more…
Weekly links April 23: RCT pointillism, the evaluation winners curse, subsidizing farmers to use machines, phone surveys and income expectations, and more… · Federal Reserve of Minneapolis interview with Esther Duflo: she offers her thoughts on the growth and inequality relationship and why there isn’t a trade-off, on whether there will be sovereign defaults after COVID-19, and why doing RCTs is like a Seurat painting. · The 2021 Clark Medal was awarded to Isaiah Andrews. A Fine Theorem does its usual excellent job in summarizing some of Isaiah’s research contr...
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