Category Archives: Burkina Faso

I’m reading Esther Duflo, Michael Kremer, and Jon Robinson’s AER paper on fertilizer use in Kenya.  Summarized by Chris Blattman here.  I’m looking for the gender dimension.  It’s hard to find and interpret.  They sampled ~450 men and ~450 women  … Continue reading →

And so, in the end, Lean In may be a book not about a social movement, but about Sandberg’s own movement from Harvard to Google to Facebook, and now into her self-appointed role as leader of Lean In. The book … Continue reading →

a nice review of the album is here:

Robert Nozick, somewhere, wondered why older people didn’t sacrifice more for the common good.  He meant, I think, being prepared for really heroic events involving likely death.  Their lives were nearing the end, so the opportunity cost of great sacrifice … Continue reading →

I didn’t realize this film War Witch (Rebelle) was one of the nominees for best foreign film; to be honest it looks too excruiciatingly sad for me to watch. I have a long-standing principle to put down books for adults … Continue reading →

Reading Charles Jones and Dietrich Vollrath’s Introduction to Economic Growth.  Great book.  But.  “Gender” and “women” do not appear in the index.   Nor do they appear in the text, even in the chapter on fertility and population growth.  But gender … Continue reading →

Plus surprenant : une pelleteuse fait partie des prises de guerre. Celle-ci permettait aux jihadistes de creuser des tranchées pour se dissimuler. via Mali: la photo qui fait dire au Tchad que Belmokhtar est mort – Mali / Tchad – … Continue reading →

frampton’s lemma from dan browne on Vimeo.

Philosophy by Light from Roman Palchenkov on Vimeo.

Scary stuff.  The video is below. Facts regarding the unauthorized storage and disclosure of the 12 July 2007 aerial weapons team or AW team video. During the mid-February 2010 time frame the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division targeting … Continue reading →

House of Cards preposterous… I stopped watching after this execrable storytelling. En route to his goal, we saw just how ruthless and ambitious he was, culminating in his murder of Peter (the one really shocking moment in the show, although … Continue reading →

Not over yet, perhaps by a long shot… northern Mali before was virtually ungovernable, hard to see how presence of French troops will change that.  If Darfur was any lesson at all, it is that UN force can do very … Continue reading →

Richard Lipsey (theory of second best) was married briefly, apparently, to Assia Wevill. Now, second-best that.