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Easterly on Randomized Evaluation

By far the best read of the current week (as yet, but looks incredibly difficult to surpass this):

Here’s an imagined dialogue between the two sides on Randomized Evaluation (RE) based on this book:

FOR: Amazing RE power lets us identify causal effect of project treatment on the treated.

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Mating, development aid, and the econometrics of it all

I recently helped one of my single male graduate students in his search for a spouse.

First, I suggested he conduct a randomized controlled trial of potential mates to identify the one with the best benefit/cost ratio.

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Sunday night econlinks

Reviewing the reviewers, with cross-disciplinary insights. Who would have thought that Economics is somewhat like History? :-). Thanks to Daniel for the link!

The Prisoner’s Dilemma in practice or ‘Who’s got the Golden Balls‘?

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Google trends…

… to predict the present: an excellent short paper from a few days ago by Choi and Varian. This is incredibly interesting (and as you will read, working pretty well even in its simplest form!);

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