This week's links include Chris Blattman's return to blogging, afterschool programs in El Salvador, knowledge transfer from the Soviet Union to China, and more.
In the latest Around Town column, news about the Midpen Media Center welcoming locals back to its studios, City Council members taking part in a simulated earthquake drill and a Stanford professor s family reaction to his Nobel prize.
In the latest Around Town column, news about the Midpen Media Center welcoming locals back to its studios, City Council members taking part in a simulated earthquake drill and a Stanford professor s family reaction to his Nobel prize.
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.