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The smartest administrators will not only plan for delivering education during the pandemic, but will develop capacities to meet the surge in demand for higher education when the pandemic fades.Read more The only way to feel worse about the impacts of COVID-19 than talking to people in public health is to talk to people in business and economics.  Macroeconomists often tell Read more Development practitioners and development economists have an interesting relationship. We talk about the same things, have many of the same interests, but don t understand each other well. Practitioners sometimes see Read more Microcredit has arguably been through more ups and downs than virtually any modern poverty intervention. For decades up through the 1980s, the thought was that the poor would never repay Read more We as development economists are poverty “experts” in many respects. We are experts at talking and writing about poverty. We are experts at developing mathematical models that explain poverty. And Read more That Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer would eventually win the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences has never been the subject of much debate in the development Read more Part of growing in our engagement with the global and domestic poor is understanding the stage where we are currently along this road, and what our possible roles can be Read more This post is taken from a blog post for the Center for Effective Philanthropy and contains excerpts from my new bookShrewd Samaritan: Faith, Economics, and the Road to Loving our Read more (Excerpt from the introduction to the book now available July 2019.) It’s been my experience that most people have a genuine desire to help the poor—including the poor in their communities Read more I returned from Guatemala on this week, helping lead a group of 25 people on a visit to the village where our non-profit organization Mayan Partners works in the western Read more A great number of life’s important questions are causal questions. Whether we are a parent trying to choose the best school for our child, a physician pondering the best approach Read more Beginning about four years ago, microcredit as an effective poverty intervention seemed dead, or at least on life support. Along with a couple of earlier studies, the six famous randomized Read more Recently I had the opportunity to take part in a webinar that discussed the status of microcredit, specifically whether or not researchers believe it works.  To complement a piece on Read more In the next weeks and months, the United States and China will enter into a serious dialogue on trade. At stake is the Chinese economy, the protection of U.S. Read more It’s Giving Tuesday, a day that has become prominent enough in our culture to make us either give, feel guilty about not giving, or come up with a powerful, self-justifying Read more When giving talks to college students at different universities, I find that most students are looking to align their lives with a cause greater than themselves.  Among these, many could Read more From the San Francisco Chronicle, Online July 13, Print July 15, 2018 The Trump administration repeatedly makes two claims to justify its crackdown on immigrants and their families: 1) Immigrants Read more Published in Christianity Today, 11/27/2017 Ryan Loofbourrow is a homelessness guru, a recognized leader in the urban poverty field.  He is also my brother-in-law. During the holidays, we have been Read more Written for the World Bank Impact Blog, May 21, 2018 It isn’t hard to understand why Andrew Leigh would write a book on randomized controlled trials. A kind of modern Read more by José Gutierrez, Police Officer, Oakland, CA Police Department and Bruce Wydick, Professor of Economics, University of San Francisco Stephon Clark. Michael Brown. Freddie Gray. Alton Sterling. Keith Scott. Compliments Read more The most recent school shooting in Santa Fe, Texas, warrants an update of a post I wrote recently about the statistical case against the arguments put forth by the National Read more Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a novel that I’d heard about since elementary school, but never read until now. February is Black History Month, and I thought I would contribute by Read more Another cycle around the sun and here we are again, the season of New Year’s resolutions, the time when we resolve not to do the stuff we were disappointed that Read more This Story Appears in Christianity Today, December 2017 (Print Edition) One year, instead of buying my dad the usual unattractive necktie for Christmas, we bought him a goat. He loved Read more For the past several years, a number of co-authors and I have been working on a series of projects that have explored the relationship between the psychology of poverty and Read more

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