Monthly Archives: March 2018

Links round-up

Posted on March 23, 2018 by

Hi all, I’m going to be honest: my brain is fried. The CSAE conference started on Sunday morning, and I was either in a session, picking brains for opinions about my own research design or pickling brains with Matt in … Continue reading →

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Who’s optimizing what, now?

Posted on March 20, 2018 by

As a horde of tired and wired academics prepare to converge on Stefan and Pramila’s (I feel like this has to instrument for something) this evening, I’m using what little is left of my brain to think about some of … Continue reading →

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Bring your whole toolbox, and kill your priors

Posted on March 19, 2018 by

I’m a DFID economist, working out of a public policy school, so Rachel Glennerster’s superb keynote presentation was like catnip to me. She talked about turning research into policy impact, a production function of sorts that remains something of a … Continue reading →

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Optimists, pessimists and speeches disguised as questions

Posted on March 18, 2018 by

Academic conferences are strange events: a gathering of intelligent and well-informed people, each of whom is either engaged in or expecting to be engaged in serious research pushing the frontiers of human knowledge, who struggle to ask questions in fewer … Continue reading →

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Links round-up

Posted on March 16, 2018 by

Hi all, These links start with deaths a disturbing amount these days. I must be getting old. I had thought Simspons characters don’t die, but apparently it’s quite common. Still, Stephen Hawking probably had a bigger impact on the world … Continue reading →

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Posted on March 9, 2018 by

Hi all, This week’s post is pretty much getting the last bit of me before I sleep for 48 hours to recover from the end of term. I’m just studying and I find it exhausting: I have no idea how … Continue reading →

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Posted on March 2, 2018 by

Hi all, Greetings from Narnia! My perpetual pessimism about an endless winter has finally been borne out. I’m writing this e-mail on the bus between Oxford and London, looking out at a landscape almost entirely white, punctuated by the odd … Continue reading →

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