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weekly link roundup (October 7, 2026)

  • This week in , we have a discussion between and Michael Kremer about Kremer’s approach to economics, and Tim’s reflections on how economics has changed in the last decade.1

    • Brazilian families spend nearly 30% of their incomes servic...
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weekly link roundup (October 2, 2026)

  • is back! This week, we have letters to the editor - and a debate about the quality of the South Sudanese census.

    • The Economist thinks effective altruism is the century’s biggest idea. I also laughed a lot at this line in a related a...
10 days ago
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weekly link roundup (September 23, 2026)

  • Children of immigrants to Britain do better on standardized tests than the native-born. Truly, I need to sit down and write my Anglosphere Immigration Really Is Different1 post.

    • The US has more data centre2 capacity than the next 14...
19 days ago
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weekly link roundup (September 17, 2026)

  • The Houthis use Claude.

    • Economists disagree on the returns to education.

    • It’s all coming up Michael Kremer - he’s the new chief economist of the World Bank and also he and coauthors have raised $60M for AI for weather forecastin...

25 days ago
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weekly link roundup (September 9, 2026)

  • The last piece of issue 2 of is out: and on how AI is affecting IT outsourcing in India - and what conclusions we can (and can’t) draw from that.

    • is launching a new program for thesis-driven philanthropic funds in global health....
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    Caroline is an Associate Professor at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. Her research explores the cause and consequence of scientific capacity in low- and middle-income countries.

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