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More evidence won’t save development
We don’t need more studies. We need a new coalition rebuilt on political priorities
Published on Eat More Electrons
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Jun 24
Visualizing the facts of long-run economic growth: The 'hockey stick' and its current consequences
The sustained growth of the leading countries combined with mixed performance of the rest implies every level of output per person that has ever existed…
Jun 19
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What to Do When the Evidence Wasn’t Made for Your Country
A synthesis of the recent debate on rigorous evidence, and three questions for choosing an intervention that fits.
Published on Hidden Rules of Development
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Jun 18
The Incredible Credulity Revolution (Scope, Extreme Poverty)
Poverty is about places, not people, making RCTs the ontologically wrong approach to poverty reduction
Jun 10
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May 2026
The impact of immigration on wages in the USA: Do economists disagree? If so, why?
There are only very minor disagreements, on very technical points
May 26
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The Incredible Credulity Revolution: The Incoherence of External Validity (concrete example)
A concrete example shows the standard advice of "rely on the rigorous evidence" is completely absurd conceptually and worse than useless empirically
May 25
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The Incredible Credulity Revolution: The Incoherence of External Validity (short version)
The very logic of the "credibility revolution" implies claims of external validity are incoherent
May 24
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Ageing is (in) the future for the USA
...estimates from recent CBO population projections
May 13
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The Incredible Credulity Revolution
Skepticism for thee but not for me
May 8
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April 2026
When an economic bug is a political feature
...a simple geopolitics of the popularity of the 'dollar a day' poverty line
Apr 24
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Low Bar Poverty Lines: Ending the Reign of Error (Part IV, the Final Chapter)
...a new measure of shared prosperity and a global upper bound poverty line together can re-center development
Apr 1
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March 2026
Economic growth is enough...
...and only economic growth is enough
Mar 11
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