” … economists have been acting a lot like intellectual imperialists in the last decade or so. They have been using their tools — mainly the analysis of enormous piles of data to tease out cause and effect — to examine everything from politics to French wine vintages.“
– NYT article “The Future of Economics Isn’t So Dismal” – [via Steven Levitt]
The Economists and Their Research [via NYT]
- Oster on AIDS (and a recent article in Esquire magazine)
- Fryer on Racial Inequality
- Finkelstein on Medicare
- DellaVigna and Malmendier on Health Clubs
- Olken on Corruption
- Gentzkow and Shapiro on Media Bias
- Gabaix on C.E.O. Pay
- Wolfers on Point Shaving
- Rothstein on Schools
- Chetty on Dividend Taxes (pdf)
- Karlan on Philanthropy (pdf)
The Economists’ Web Sites [via NYT]
Ulrike Malmendier: http://www.econ.berkeley.edu/~ulrike/index.html
Stefano DellaVigna: http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~sdellavi/
Roland Fryer: http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/fryer/fryer.html
Jesse Rothstein: http://www.princeton.edu/~jrothst/
Jesse Shapiro: http://home.uchicago.edu/~jmshapir/
Emily Oster: http://home.uchicago.edu/~eoster/
Amy Finkelstein: http://www.nber.org/~afinkels/
Benjamin Olken: http://www.nber.org/~bolken/
Raj Chetty: http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~chetty/
Justin Wolfers: http://bpp.wharton.upenn.edu/jwolfers/index.shtml
Xavier Gabiax: http://econ-www.mit.edu/faculty/index.htm?prof_id=xgabaix
Matthew Gentzkow: http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/matthew.gentzkow/
Dean Karlan: http://www.econ.yale.edu/karlan/
[…] Also from TED – Emily Oster, a Becker Fellow at U. of Chicago, will also speak. And I am interested to see. See this Esquire article and Oster’s website for more of her ideas. [via Freakonomics] See also a previous blog entry. […]