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Nico Voigtländer, Shanker Satyanath and I have a new working paper about the "dark side" of social capital. Slate's formidable...

I was in Lisbon last week, for a conference on Political Economy. Danila Serra presented what I thought was one of the most interesting pape...

Congratulations to current ITFD student Juan Jose Cortina, who will be working at the World Bank as an intern this summer...

I just came back from Hong Kong, where the annual INET conference was held. I was speaking in the session on austerity and polarization. Nia...

The QJE Excellence in Refereeing Awards are out.

[ via economic logic... ] There is a new wp on human-vampire interactions, by Dan Farhat. I always stayed away from this phenomenon, but it ...

to the right music, and your age will change. Apparently, this is scientifically proven. Psychological Science  reports a study where subjec...