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Shirley Chisholm, Political Pioneer and Census Taker
Representative Shirley Chisholm took on a thorny task as a census taker in Brooklyn in 1970, but her resolve, empathy and...
American Economic Association
Frank Schilbach
@betsylevyp @jrpjrpjrp Baranov et al. follow up seven years after an original psychotherapy trial in Pakistan:
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@VictoriaBaranov @pietrobiroli
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China moves to phase out single-use plastics
Plastic bags to be banned in all major cities by end of 2020, says state planner
The agony of weekend loneliness: ‘I won't speak to another human until Monday’
For growing numbers of people the weekend is an emotional wilderness where interaction is minimal and social life non-existent. What can be done to break this toxic cycle?
Frank Schilbach
For many of us, weekends are sources of joy and relaxation. For the lonely, weekends are dreaded sources of loneliness and isolation.
@SOCCAH_network @EndLonelinessUK
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MORE | Katharine Hayhoe
Frank Schilbach
@ImranRasul3 @tom_vogl @Maisa_Rojas @tage_rai @AnneKaring @ShengwuLi @akbarpour_ @seema_econ @PaulFNiehaus Not surprisingly, climate scientists are ahead of us and likely a good role model. For instance, @KHayhoe is a pioneer in giving talks via video. See some of her advice here
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The productive career of Robert Solow
Sure, he won a Nobel for his research on technology, productivity, and growth. But his legacy as a mentor is equally remarkable.
When Mental Illness Becomes a Jail Sentence
Arrestees who are mentally incompetent to stand trial are supposed to be sent for treatment. But thousands are being warehoused in jails for months without a conviction.
The burden of mental disorders across the states of India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 1990–2017
One in seven Indians were affected by mental disorders of varying severity in 2017.
The proportional contribution of mental disorders to the total disease burden in India
has almost doubled since 1990. Substantial variations exist between states in...
In Memoriam: The Most Influential Poverty Fighter You've Never Heard Of
He was an accountant for Big Oil. Then came the cyclone of 1970. Sir Fazle Hasan Abed found a new calling — and came up with an idea that could be key to ending extreme poverty.
Carry On!
Tomoko Harigaya, PAD’s Chief Economist and Director of Research, reflects on what this year’s Nobel Prize in Economics and a recent meta-analysis published in Science mean for our work. Over the course of the past ... Read moreCarry On!
BBC World Service - Digital Planet, Improving crop yields with mobile phones
Mobile phones are improving lives and yields for millions of farmers around the world.
The Harvard and MIT economists finding new ways to fight global poverty - The Boston Globe
Nobel Prize winners Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee, and Michael Kremer took a different path to helping the poor and transformed development economics.
Netflix-inspired tools can reap rewards for farmers, says Nobel winner
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - What does online streaming giant Netflix h...
Frank Schilbach
Netflix-inspired tools can reap rewards for farmers, says Kremer
@raissafabregas @PrecisionAgDev
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Realizing the potential of digital development: The case of agricultural advice
Mobile phones are almost universally available, and the costs of information transmission are low. They are used by smallholder farmers in low-income countries, largely successfully, to optimize markets for their produce. Fabregas et al. review the...
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Frank Schilbach
New review paper with @raissafabregas & freshly-minted Nobel Laureate Michael Kremer on digital ag extension as part of @sciencemagazine’s Tomorrow’s Earth series! Enormous potential but info market failures prevent socially efficient scale
@PrecisionAgDev
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Esther Duflo, Nobel Prize-winning economist - BBC HARDtalk
Shaun Ley speaks to the Nobel Prize winning economist Esther Duflo. The experimental trails she ran with two colleagues in Africa and India produced some sur...
2019 Prize Lectures in Economic Sciences
The Lectures in Economic Sciences will take place at Aula Medica Karolinska Institutet in Solna, Sweden.
Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien
Frank Schilbach
Lovely conference by Esther, Michael, and Abhijit (and the other Laureates) in which they describe their donations to the Nobel Museum and announce their Prize Money donation to the Weiss Fund. Bravo!
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2019 Economics Laureates to donate Nobel Prize money to next generation of economists - The Boston Globe
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo of MIT and Michael Kremer of Harvard University — the 2019 winners of the Sveriges Riksbank Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences — are donating their prize money to invest in the next generation of development...