December 11 links: Expensive publishing, DAGs & linking errors, waning research on China and where is overstudied, and more…
· A review paper in Science on the links between poverty, depression and anxiety by Ridley, Rao, Schilbach and Patel – including a round-up of experimental impacts of poverty reduction projects on mental health, and of mental health improvement interventions on labor supply.
· In the Royal Economic Society newsletter, Dina Pomeranz offers an introduction to #Econtwitter
· At VoxDev, Suresh de Mel and co-authors summarize their experiment in Sri Lanka that allowed people to make deposits to their savings account from their mobile phone – which found very little use and no impact on savings. Documenting these null results is particularly important for areas such as the digital economy and mobile money which get so much hype.