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“Cheap talk” incentives for better grades. You never know, it might actually work; let’s see if Bloomberg actually implements this.
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Ed Glaeser with a very interesting piece on gender differences in aggresiveness and policy ideas. And yes, as things currently stand, Greg Mankiw might be very right that Glaeser just said goodbye forever to the Harvard Presidential chair :-).
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Surprinsingly, by the slimmest of margins, I am not a quant… (thanks to Greg Mankiw for the pointer)
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Colbert dropped his bid for the White House (though he only announced it some days ago): “Although I lost by the slimmest margin in presidential election history — only 10 votes — I have chosen not to put the country through another agonizing Supreme Court battle[…] It is time for this nation to heal” ; nevertheless, he claims it is not over 🙂
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Heel goed, Wendy (interview on YouTube, in Dutch)! My friend and former Tinbergen Institute colleague Wendy Janssens is very briefly describing the research undertaken in her PhD thesis (with focus here on the importance of social capital in a development program from India). The latest prize her thesis won is the “Societal Impact Award” for 2007 (this after she won already the Amsterdam Institute for International Development/World Bank dissertation award) . Gefeliceteerd en ad majora!
