Assorted

How Teacher Turnover Harms Student Achievement


The Economics of Crime: Lessons for and from Latin America


Andrew Leigh's blog

Assorted

NGO Sustainability Index

Uses and Abuses of Governance Indicators

Measuring Democracy

A Users Guide to Measuring Corruption

You Too Can Fix the Budget

Budget Puzzle: You Fix the Budget

O.K., You Fix the Budget

Assorted

Anti-disorder campaigns can change urban norms;

Part of what people like about New Delhi’s metro is that the cars are clean and people are relatively courteous. Some riders are so pleased, in fact, that they volunteer their time to ensure it stays that way. They enforce rules against public spitting and urination. Though such rules are routinely ignored in the rest of the city, the volunteers appear to be winning the battle so far to sustain new norms among metro riders.

Even when cities enforce formal rules against certain kinds of behavior, creating a culture of compliance with the rules can be challenging. The Delhi metro monitors are simply trying to preserve a desirable equilibrium.

-How The Times built teacher effectiveness database

Assorted

Added some updates to the sides on PEM Experts and Blogs, including PFM Board,Governance Journal blog,

Assorted

Journal of Development Effectiveness

Human Opportunity Index for Latin America

2010 Nepal Economic Update

2010 Sri Lanka Economic Update

Australia's Future Tax System Review

Assorted- Bend it like Becker and others

Living on a Budget;

The grocery market in the United States accounts for more than 25 percent of all retail sales, totaling hundreds of billions of dollars. The last decade has seen important transformations in the market structure of this industry with non-traditional retailers such as Walmart and Costco accounting for more than 30 percent of total grocery sales. For any given product, the spread of consumer prices from different retailers is orders of magnitude larger than price fluctuations from changing world food market conditions. The average consumer faces prices that differ by more than 20 percent across stores in the same area.

The National Broadband Plan

Growth Policy- Paul Romer

The economist manifesto

Bend it like Becker

Angus Maddison, Economic Historian, Dies at 83

The Trouble With Rankings

Economics Uncut-A Complete Guide to Life, Death and Misadventure

Yuan to fight about it? The WTO legality of China’s exchange regime

Assorted

The Physics of Curling

What’s Wrong with the Obama Job Loss Graphic?

Keep testing the kids

Welcoming the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform

The simple money supply multiplier model and simple keynesian multiplier model

Using Simple Statistics to Detect Cheating

How to write an essay

CPI + Velocity = Trouble

Beauty’s Daughter

Assorted

Islamic Credit Default Swaps

Pop singer makes two excellent points on development

What’s the United States Worth? $1.4 Quadrillion

Soviet Growth & American Textbooks

The flow of economic thought – Jan Tinbergen vs Milton Friedman;

“It is a little superfluous for any foreigner to come to Rotterdam to lecture about economics at all. I feel a bit like a 17th century New England smuggler lecturing on seamanship to Admiral Tromp. The trade in economics nowadays is as much the other way: we send our young men to Rotterdam to learn, not our middle-aged professors to teach. Indeed some of our best middle-aged professors are named Koopmans and Houthakker! I suppose the logic of the situation is that I am not import at all; I am to be processed and re-exported, like cocoa beans.”
-Robert M. Solow in 1963 when visiting the Rotterdam School of Economics.

Assorted

Everything is a project, even this

How to keep meetings short: 5 tricks

Life's trade-offs in 10 easy principles

Economics and voter irrationality: my review of The Myth of the Rational Voter

A bouquet of fallacies from Gary Becker and Stephen Dubner

According to the economic approach, therefore, most (if not all!) deaths are to some extent "suicides" in the sense that they could have been postponed if more resources had been invested in prolonging life.

The Prospects for Global Imbalances: A View from the IMF

Five questions on asset prices and monetary policy

On a Scale of One to Four, How Happy Are You?

Data Mining: Course Materials (Fall 2009)

A Way to Share in a Nation’s Growth

Learning from bad graphs and weak analysis

The Gospel of thrift

The Hidden History of the Health Care Bill

The Age of the Dashboard!

Assorted about Public Sector Dashboards.



Dashboards - A Downloadable "How To" Guide

Using Performance Measures

The Federal IT Dashboard-The Status Quo Is No Longer Acceptable !

OMB’s New Performance Principles;

He also noted the use of management dashboards, such as the IT Dashboard, and said “We plan similar dashboards for other common government functions, including procurement, financial management, and personnel management.” He also said OMB will look for ways to make agency Performance and Accountability Reports more useful. The Department of the Interior’s report may be a useful model.

Memo to IMF's Fiscal Affairs Department: You guys need to have a close watch over the innovative ways the new US administration is dealing with performance management- some of their ideas are replicable in many developing countries.

Assorted

2009 edition of the World Energy Outlook (WEO)

If Statisticians Could Turn Back Time

Effective Habits for writers?

I'm interested in doing very few things. I don't have a cell phone. Don't have a computer. Don't have a TV set. Don't go to movies. Don't read. I ignore the world so I might live obsessively.

New software makes it easier to fight corruption

Twenty questions for would-be MPs

Animal Spirits

International Trade Statistics 2009

Global Wage Report 2008/09: Minimum wages and collective bargaining: Towards policy coherence

Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Report 2009 : Trade-led Recovery and Beyond

The Arab knowledge report 2009: towards productive intercommunication for knowledge

Catalysing Low Carbon Growth in Developing Economies: public finance mechanisms to scale up private sector investment in climate solutions

Addiction, Crime and Insurgency: The transnational threat of Afghan opium

Global health risks

Global Report on Human Settlements 2009: Planning Sustainable Cities


Improving Effectiveness and Outcomes for the Poor in Health, Nutrition and Population

Human development report 2009

Paying a Price for the Thrill of the Hunt

The Consolations of Economics and other Podcasts

Princeton’s Dixit Discusses Nobel for Ostrom, Williamson

Calvo Sees Difficulty Unwinding Stimulus Packages

Bill Clinton Cites Discipline, Growth to Cut Deficit

Rogoff, Reinhart on Their Book `This Time Is Different'

Skidelsky Says Stimulus Debates Today Same as 1930s

Zandi Sees Little Traction for U.S. Recovery in 2010

Plosser Says No Bank Should Be Too Big to Fail

Sustainable Wealth: Achieve Financial Security in a Volatile World of Debt and Consumption

The Consolations of Economics
Speaker: Tim Harford

The Strange Friendship of Pauli and Jung: when physics met psychology
Speaker: Professor Arthur I Miller

Keynes and the Crisis of Capitalism
Speaker: Professor Lord Skidelsky

The current state of the economy
Speaker: Professor Edward C. Prescott

Building windmills not walls – Hungary's approach in the economic storm
Speaker: Gordon Bajnai

Optimal Financial Structure and Economic Development
Speaker: Dr Justin Yifu Lin

Islam: what I believe
Speaker: Professor Tariq Ramadan

The Future of Banking and Financial Regulation
Speaker: Eric Chaney, Professor Charles Goodhart

Predictioneer: How to predict the future with game-theory
Speaker: Professor Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

A Year after the Collapse of Lehmans: where does global capitalism go now?
Speaker: Professor Andrew Gamble, Will Hutton, Professor Danny Quah

Risk, Behaviour and Applications to Health Policy
Speaker: Dr Joan Costa-i-Font, Dr Caroline Rudisill

How to Control and Change Individual Behaviour: the world as installation
Speaker: Professor Saadi Lahlou

Human Rights in the 21st Century
Speaker: Professor Noam Chomsky

The Idea of Justice
Amartya Sen

Capitalism and Confusion
Amartya Sen

The Role of Political and Economic Ideas in Policymaking
Douglas Irwin, Professor of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics, Dartmouth College
David Colander, Professor of Economics, Middlebury College
Murray Dry, Professor of Political Science, Middlebury College
James Morrison, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Middlebury College

Capitalism 3.0
Dani Rodrik

Natural Resource Management -Collier

A Conversation with Lord Nicholas Stern

Developing Rural Areas - Esther Duflo

The Life and Impact of Ayn Rand

It's Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistleblower

Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World

The Return of Depression Economics

The Global Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences - Greenspan

Controlling corruption
Out of the Fitzgerald Inquiry, the National Integrity System was born, and is now used by governments and authorities in most countries around the world. The latest is Kurdistan. Corruption, like death and taxes, is inevitable. Ian Townsend explores ways in which it can be managed and minimised.

Addiction, free will and self control

Gandhi and philosophy - the centenary of Hind Swaraj

Beethoven and the modern

How T.H. Huxley helped me teach my students how to write

Assorted

From Poverty to Prosperity Watch

The Lord is my central banker, I shall not want…

Plastic fantastic

Global Development Finance 2009: Charting a Global Recovery


Selective extracting

The Impact of the Trilemma Configurations on Macroeconomic Performance

Why Pressure Cookers Are Big in the Netherlands

Fiscal Stimulus, Interest Rates and Crowding-Out

Combining findings at the Province and County Level from Iran's Election

Indian Capital Control Liberalization: Evidence from NDF Markets

Public libraries in India

For Father's Day: the IR guide to parenting

Roads to Success: Budget Consolidations in OECD Countries

Respinning the web

If the financial crisis has taught us anything,” says Michael Taylor, “it is that too much conventional wisdom can be dangerous.”

Laffer Curves Are Average Not Marginal Taxation

The Fragility of Economic Data

Was there Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant?

If you smell, here's a remedy

Bring Your Questions for White House Economist Austan Goolsbee

Books I am looking forward to reading

Grey hair may be protecting us from cancer

Assorted about budgets and transparency

Budget 2009: Lets Assume we have a Candle Opener (Australia)

OMB reveals transparency roadmap

The White House wants to make about 240,000 different sets of data available to the public over the next month. It took the first step Thursday by launching its Data.gov web site with 46 sets of data in 13 areas from 26 agencies.

New Zealand budget 2009: Downgrade alert?

Is Australia's Treasury independent?

The setting for the budget speech- India

Assorted

Swine flu: why does it take so long to make a vaccine?

Cloud Computing

White House Launches ‘Open Government Initiative’

Sunday Function

How Pigs Replaced Economics


The IS curve

That Freshman Course Won’t Be Quite the Same

The problem with economists;

Incorporating the factors that created problems in the financial markets makes the theory complex. But to be effective in the real world, to be able to communicate economic ideas, you have to simplify. Sometimes, you start believing your simplifications as if they were the general theory.

An Economist Tries to Defend His Profession--and Fails

Foreclosures and Modifications for Beginners

Assorted

Maybe we should put rats in charge of foreign aid research

Whither the Causation?

My Information Diet

Assorted

How do we know how many people die from flu each year?

The mathematics of war

The State of Public Finances-Outlook and Medium-Term Policies After the 2008 Crisis

Swine Flu Genes Show Virus May Be Weak

Assorted

Is China souring on the dollar?

The Reeducation of Tim Geithner

The monetary-policy maze

Taleb on the Fourth Quadrant

Assorted

Causes of the Oil Shock of 2007-08

Japan’s recovery

Government deficits through fiscal policy and inter-generational justice

Mongolian government takes action to support small businesses (or Inspections Gone Wild)

To regulate finance, try the market

Consumer confidence indices: further economic deterioration

Why the GST is a good idea

Taylor rule and liquidity trap

The GPT That Dares Not Speak Its Name

Fed Confronts Financial Crisis by Expanding Its Role as Lender of Last Resort