Monthly Archives: November 2013

A recent BBC piece reports on sex workers in Kenya using post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP)* as a substitute for condoms, cycling through different clinics to use the drugs on a regular basis. This lets them earn a premium for unprotected sex … Continue reading →

Economists like to use improvements in standardized tests as a measure of how well education programs are working. This commonly leads to dissent on the grounds that standardized tests don’t really measure anything of value. My go-to response to that … Continue reading →

While I have been bogged down in the insanity of the middle of the academic semester, reports have kept coming out about the staggering success of unconditional cash transfer programs in Africa. For those of you playing along at home, … Continue reading →