Nudge, the Video: Behavioural Economics in Action

Nudge, the Video: Helping people make better choicesPeople don't always act rationally. In fact, they tend to act irrationally - but in predictable ways. In this video, four marketing professors from ...

Annika Lindskog: Inheritance and education | Human capital and growth

When making policy changes that affect education, we should not immediately think that less education is automatically bad. In this video Annika Lindskog from the University of Gothenburg discusses ho...

Nisheeth Srivastava: Where Do Preferences Come From?

Nisheeth Srivastava: Where Do Preferences Come From? Research that reexamines a fundamental assumption of economic theory. Srivastava is looking at preferences, which are taken as given and immutable ...

Sharissa S. Barrow, Law & Economics Research Foundation

Sharissa S. Barrow is the Law & Economics Research Foundation 2009 Scholarly Achievement Award Recipient. She is a student at Rutgers University who recently was a part of the team that was in 2nd...

Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay: From catholic missionaries to Indian development | Human capital and growth

In order to understand human capital, we need to look at causes of difference that do not affect economic development directly. In this video, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay from the Indian Statistical Instit...

Rajesh Ramachandran: The usefulness of mother tongues | Human capital and growth

Rajesh Ramachandran of Goethe University discusses the effect of the reliance on colonial languages as the main language of schooling in sub-Saharan Africa. His research found that teaching children i...

Research Transparency in Economics | Rachel Glennerster (J-PAL/MIT)

Research Transparency in Economics | Rachel Glennerster (J-PAL/MIT) "I’m Executive Director of the The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, which is a center at MIT. I do randomized evaluation...