Monthly Archives: September 2015

PSA: Cut the whitespace off the edges of your PDFs to import them into TeX

These days in economics, TeX is more or less unavoidable. There’s really no better way to put equations into your documents, and it can do wonderful things with automatically numbering tables and hyperlinking to them from where they are referenced. … Continue reading

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Randomizing cash transfers: practical equipoise in social science experiments

When is it ethical to randomly determine the provision of a treatment to people in an experiment? Researchers designing such experiments often appeal to the principle of equipoise, which means  “that there is genuine uncertainty in the expert medical community … Continue reading

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