In 2002 Bertrand, Duflo and Mullainathan published an influential paper at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) which argued that difference-in-difference studies have a fundamental problem of under-estimating variance, and proposed some
Yesterday all my lab's PhD students and our Research Assistant gathered for a pre-Ramadan party, and after we had eaten our fill of delicious pilaf and Bengal curry we had a
In this months's US federal election, Donald Trump and his Republican party won the presidency, the senate and will likely win control of the House, bringing the Republicans under their mercurial
Today the Lancet published my correspondence asking them when they are going to speak up about the genocide in Gaza. It demands an end to their silence, and asks if the absence of
The Financial Times has released a new report that uses data from the USA to claim that the USA's historically high obesity rates have begun to fall, and suggesting that this
