The Shrewd Samaritan – Across Two Worlds
Why the 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics is so Important| Across Two Worlds
Why the 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics is so Important| Across Two Worlds
Why the 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics is so Important| Across Two Worlds
Microcredit has arguably been through more ups and downs than virtually any modern poverty intervention. For decades up through the 1980s, the thought was that the poor would never repay loans; cre…| Across Two Worlds
Five Reasons Why Development NGOs Should Invest in the Tools of Modern Impact Evaluation| Across Two Worlds
I am a development economist at the University of San Francisco where my research focuses on the impacts of development programs such as microfinance, child sponsorship, and different in-kind donat…| Across Two Worlds
The 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics was given to David Card, Joshua Angrist, and Guido Imbens for their work in using observational data and natural experiments to help us understand causal relations…| Across Two Worlds
One of the most popular schools of thought in global ethics today is a movement called Effective Altruism. Founded on the work of Princeton philosopher Peter Singer, it draws heavily on ideas deve…| Across Two Worlds
David Levine and Bruce Wydick Americans—and the world—should cheer the government’s news Friday to lift the pause on the distribution of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. The decision wi…| Across Two Worlds
Recently my coauthors and I finished a CEGA working paper for a research project that fell into the category of one of those “dying to know if this popular thing really works” studies. Previo…| Across Two Worlds
The smartest administrators will not only plan for delivering education during the pandemic, but will develop capacities to meet the surge in demand for higher education when the pandemic fades.| Across Two Worlds
The only way to feel worse about the impacts of COVID-19 than talking to people in public health is to talk to people in business and economics. Macroeconomists often tell us that the typical rece…| Across Two Worlds
