economics, psychology, policy

Early-Life Health and Adult Circumstance in Developing Countries Janet Currie, Tom Vogl NBER Working Paper No. 18371 Issued in September ...

The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance Steven D. Levitt, John A. List, Susanne...

This weekend the Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) at Oxford hosts their 25th annual conference . The plenary sessions will b...

Dean Karlan has written some of the most highly-cited papers in the literature on randomised evaluation of development projects. His IDEAS p...

I should open a category for late book recommendations, but better late than never. The book " Portfolios of the Poor " by Daryl C...

If you are interested in development economics & could do with an intensive course in it, this course at U.Laval (Quebec) during the sum...

A lot of data tools and graphics on this website that will be of interest to people working on development economics topics. It is the comp...

If you are interested in economic development, cross-country comparisons and data visualization this new facility from the World Bank is use...

This is a nice graph which illustrates effectively the variation in male life expectancy: how many years a newborn baby boy can currently ex...

Esther Duflo, Bates Clarke Winner, gives a TED talk on the use of randomisation in development economics.

Students and researchers should keep a close eye on the evolving data infrastructure at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at U...

Instruments, randomization, and learning about development Author info | Abstract | Publisher info | Download info | Related research |...

This week has provided free access to over 2000 data series http://data.worldbank.org/

For those interested in some of the pressing public health issues in the developing world, it’s worth highlighting some of the recent work b...

I promised a few PhD students working on development economics that I would provide some details of papers and researchers at the interface ...