Monthly Archives: March 2013

In an article on Slate, Jenny Trinitapoli and Alexander Weinreb argue that the decline in HIV incidence in Africa can be attributed to religious leaders preaching a pragmatic message of sexual morality and caution. As evidence, they cite different behaviors … Continue reading →

Healthline has a press release about a paper by Orpinas et al. that studies the dating trajectories of adolescents (gated) and shows that people who date early (starting from middle school) have worse academic performance. The press release is titled … Continue reading →

Ever since the early 1990s, a number of influential economists have argued that many epidemiological models need to be modified to account for endogenous changes in transmission. Traditional epidemiology assumes that individual choices can be ignored: models do not allow … Continue reading →

From the Economist’s article on the death of Hugo Chavez comes this little bit of ridiculousness: “What the hell is this supposed to be showing?” you might ask. According to the article, “In real terms, between 2000 and 2012 Venezuela’s … Continue reading →

The World Bank just announced a new initiative (the Africa Gender Innovation Lab) to support innovative ideas to promote gender equality. I like this idea a lot – as I’ve pointed out before, a lot of ideas about the role … Continue reading →

For an economist, I put relatively little time or effort into sophisticated, mathematical theory, but that still makes me a fairly high outlier in the development and public health research communities. The stock in trade of an economist is the … Continue reading →