Monthly Archives: August 2016

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

Posted on August 26, 2016 by Jason Kerwin

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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The unbanked don’t *want* to be banked

Posted on August 24, 2016 by Jason Kerwin

Bank accounts as currently offered appear unappealing to the majority of individuals in our three samples of unbanked, rural households – even when these accounts are completely subsidized. That’s the punchline of a new paper by Dupas, Karlan, Robinson, and … Continue reading →

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New website (and a new home for my blog)

Posted on August 6, 2016 by Jason Kerwin

I recently changed my personal website over to WordPress. (I had previously been writing the HTML by hand, which was a pain when I made major updates.) An added benefit of that changeover is that it enabled me to start … Continue reading →

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