Rajesh Ramachandran: The usefulness of mother tongues | Human capital and growth

Rajesh Ramachandran of Goethe University discusses the effect of the reliance on colonial languages as the main language of schooling in sub-Saharan Africa. His research found that teaching children i...

Einar Hope on challenges for Energy Economics research

Einar Hope, professor emeritus in Economics at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration explains what is, in his opinion, the main challenge ahead for research in Energy Economics...

Pascaline Dupas: Do health subsidies help? | Human capital and growth

Pascaline Dupas of Stanford University looks at what prevent households from investing in health products that we know can save lives. Often the reason is simply poverty, however the international com...

Corrado DiGuilmi and Laura Carvalho: Beyond Representative-Agent Macroeconomics

Corrado DiGuilmi and Laura Carvalho, grantees of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, have individually been exploring two possible alternative analytical entry points: mean field methods from phy...

Victor Yakovenko: What Causes Inequality? An Econophysics Approach

Victor Yakovenko speaking about his innovative approach to economic inequality. In standard economics, inequality in outcomes is typically attributed to inequality of inputs, for example, from differe...

Thesis Statements: Stability of Risk Preference Estimates Over Payoff Horizons

Thesis Statements: Stability of Risk Preference Estimates Over Payoff Horizons. The technical title describes a behavioral economics experiment that Alexander Myers (Economics student) devised for Am...

World Bank: Policies Should Match Behavior

Development policies need re-hauled to reflect how people’s minds really work, a new World Bank study argues. This could help form and realize development goals, including that of breaking poverty cyc...