Reporting from the 8th Midwest International Economic Development Conference
I attended this conference at Madison, WI last week, which was quite pleasant except the weather – it snowed!
View ArticleFighting Malaria with Microfinance?
Diseases like malaria, diarrhea and intestinal worms plague hundreds of millions of people in the developing world. A major puzzle for development researchers and practitioners is why the poor do not...
View ArticleTo use or not to use: Getting people to adopt new health technologies
David has started a discussion that I find intrinsically interesting and one that well-designed impact evaluations can help clarify: why don’t more people adopt low-cost efficacious health...
View ArticleDying from malaria in the market for lemons
We know malaria is a big problem and we know fake drugs are a big problem. What do you get when you put them together? Bad news. A recent paper by Martina Bjorkman-Nyqvist, Jakob Svensson and...
View ArticleWhat you don't know can hurt you: Malaria edition
You are feeling not so well. You go to the doctor. She is a good doctor. She runs some tests, tells you nothing is wrong with you and you leave, ready to get back to work. Why are you so much...
View ArticleTraveling with ease, carrying disease? Using mobile phone data to reduce...
This is the eighth in our series of job market posts this year The Global Fund has disbursed nearly $28.4 billion in the last decade to reduce the disease burden from malaria, TB and HIV (Global Fund...
View ArticleIn Sub-Saharan African, as malaria rolls back, human capital moves forward:...
This is the eleventh in our job market paper series this year. Malaria is preventable and treatable – but it is still deadly. In 2015, there were 214 million cases of malaria and an estimated 438,000...
View ArticleHow hard are they working?
I was at a conference a couple of years ago and a senior colleague, one who I deeply respect, summarized the conversation as: “our labor data are crap.” I think he meant that we have a general...
View ArticleThe Perils of Being a Firstborn Child Amidst Forest Cover Loss in Indonesia:...
This is the thirteenth in this year's series of posts by PhD students on the job market. Our planet is currently experiencing substantial environmental degradation. The resulting depletion of resources...
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