Author Archives: Ranil Dissanayake

Links round-up

Posted on April 5, 2019 by

Hi all, You know, every once in a while my mood just plummets after spending five minutes reading the news and not just for the obvious reasons. I’m very much a big-picture optimist, in the Max Roser camp of taking … Continue reading →

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Posted on March 29, 2019 by

Hi all, Normally as the calendar turns towards Spring, the intros to the links become easier and easier to write: I make some comment about the first rays of sunshine (I took an hour-long walk over my lunch break today … Continue reading →

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Posted on March 22, 2019 by

Hi all, During the CSAE conference, I heard that Alan Krueger had passed away. My exposure to Krueger was primarily through his seminal paper with David Card on minimum wages – a case study in tackling a big topic carefully … Continue reading →

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CSAE Conference 2019 Blog

Posted on March 19, 2019 by

CSAE Conference Day 2: A few thoughts on culture One of the things about the CSAE conference is that everyone’s experience of it is quite different. With so many parallel sessions, each participant takes an idiosyncratic walk through a forest … Continue reading →

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CSAE Conference 2019 Blog

Posted on March 17, 2019 by

CSAE Conference Day 1: The sceptics guide to innovation and AI Apparently, sufficiently large gatherings of development economists can generate freak weather occurrences (n=2). Last year the CSAE conference was held in a freak patch of sunshine sandwiched by the … Continue reading →

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Posted on March 15, 2019 by

Hi all, This week’s links are just a tiny foretaste of a barrage of economics to come: on Sunday, the 2019 CSAE Conference on Economic Development in Africa starts. I’ll be blogging the Sunday and Monday of the conference, picking … Continue reading →

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Posted on March 8, 2019 by

Hi all, It’s International Women’s Day today, and while I unfortunately won’t be celebrating by seeing Captain Marvel (I suspect any attempts to play the IWD card to get my partner to watch an action flick only I am interested … Continue reading →

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Posted on March 1, 2019 by

Hi all, In the mid to late 1990s, there was a spate of ‘disaster’ movies, focusing on plausible but unexpected or unlikely natural catastrophes. They had names like Volcano (in which Tommy Lee Jones kicks a volcano’s ass), Dante’s Peak … Continue reading →

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Posted on February 22, 2019 by

Hi all, I’ve been suffering from two productivity sinks today, which are killing my attempts to make some sense of the results of a survey I ran last year in the hopes that there’s a paper lurking somewhere inside it … Continue reading →

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Posted on February 15, 2019 by

Hi all, In the normal run of things, scoring a match-sealing century and captaining your team to victory in a Test is pretty much as good as it gets for an England captain, used as they are to painful drubbings … Continue reading →

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