📚 This is an archive of Aid Thoughts, a development economics blog that was active from 2009 to 2017. Posts are preserved in their original form.

April 2012

10 posts

Replication rite of passage

The African Man vs the Hollywood Stereotype

The temptation of the empirical knockout punch

When an RCT would have been really handy

Poverty porn, Scandinavian chocolate cake edition

Why predictions fail

The IMF's mission to Judea, 33 A.D.

In which Malawi’s government decides to uphold the constitution

In which Malawi's government decides to ignore the constitution

On the death of presidents and ignoring the averages