Have I perhaps mentioned that In Development has launched? Because it has; our first article (Paul Niehaus on cash transfers) is live; there is another article coming Thursday; you should subscribe here.
Dylan Matthews writes about how the AI people have been right about a lot. As a certified AI Skeptic myself, Dylan is absolutely right, and I should have paid more attention to AI earlier.
Kurtis Lockhart and Oliver Hanney discussed what an African YIMBYism would look like with the founder of the Centre for Affordable Housing Finance in Africa. Recommend!
Derek Thompson argues Baumol’s cost disease is part of the reason Americans are so lonely.
GAIN is looking for mentors to help young Africans interested in graduate degrees in economics navigate the application process.
It appears to be generally better for academically precocious youth to skip grades - if they do, they are more successful later in life.1
Feels like this paper would have been more useful to me - or my parents - in 1993, rather than 2013.