Free Bikes and Girls' Education - Update 25 Aug 2013 | 03:44 pm

Last year, I posted a video about some new research on how giving bicycles to girls in a India increased their educational attainment.  Here is an update.

I am Ray Fair 20 Aug 2013 | 03:12 pm

Or at least we agree on most things, according to this website, which identifies which economist on the IGM Forum your opinions are most similar to.

An Economist Gets Pregnant 18 Aug 2013 | 05:15 am

Emily Oster looks at the evidence.

The One Percent 12 Aug 2013 | 08:34 pm

The JEP Symposium on the Top One Percent is now available online.

Wisdom from Raghu Rajan 10 Aug 2013 | 02:43 pm

"For economists who actively engage the public, it is hard to influence hearts and minds by qualifying one’s analysis and hedging one’s prescriptions. Better to assert one’s knowledge unequivocally, e...

A Debate over Obamacare 9 Aug 2013 | 08:30 pm

Casey Mulligan versus David Cutler

The Latest from Merle Hazard 7 Aug 2013 | 09:23 pm

A New Job for Raghu Rajan 6 Aug 2013 | 11:01 pm

He's becoming a central banker.

Obamacare versus the Faculty 4 Aug 2013 | 12:04 am

I don't know how widespread this phenomenon is, but I thought I would share this email I received this morning: I have been teaching multiple sections of economics for four years now at several Colle...

Ec 10 Bleg 3 Aug 2013 | 07:06 pm

As part of our "marketing" effort to get freshmen into ec 10, Harvard's introductory economics course, the ec 10 staff and I are trying to construct a list of famous alums of the course. Here is the l...