Economic Development in Pixels
John D. Huber and Laura Mayoral create a new measure of economic well-being that is both economically interpretable and free of the biases that afflict night-light data.
Tag Archive: institutions
To measure institutional performance, talk to users
Benito Arruñada argues that institutions’ performance measures should focus more on the reports of the individuals who have experience interacting with them.
Video: Citizens, Institutions, and Globalization (ERC Starting Grant)
Giacomo Ponzetto talks about the objectives, challenges, and potential impact of his ERC Starting Grant Project.
How crop expropriation cultivated social hierarchy
Joram Mayshar, Omer Moav, Zvika Neeman and Luigi Pascali find that one consistent difference between farming societies that developed complex hierarchies and those that did not was whether those societies relied on cereal grains or roots and tubers.
