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Author Archives: Edgar Salgado Chavez
Experimentos de chocolateada controlada
Hoy me preguntaba ¿cómo se traduciría Randomized Controlled Trials al español? La dificultad de la traducción, me parece, recae en la palabra “Randomized”. Pues si bien, la traducción más literal sería algo como “Experimentos de asignacion aleatoria controlada”, “Asignación Aleatoria” … Continue reading
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Firm’s age & size
In empirical Industrial Organization (IO) analysis it is common to find some beliefs: the bigger the firm, the more productive it is; the older the firm, the bigger its size. Last Monday professor Chang Hsieh was trying to show that … Continue reading
Certainty from underground
Again Dostoevsky. And the confirmation that every book written by this Russian giant if not, it’s very close to be a gem. I bought Notes from Underground on Sunday and cannot stop reading it. At the beginning I was highlighting … Continue reading
Development in Progress
One thing is to sit down on a desk and crunch a bunch of data until the data, exhausted after being hardly interrogated, decides to speak. Then you prepare your presentation. Other thing, very important, is the data collection process. … Continue reading
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One Peruvian election’s outcome
Last Peruvian elections produced many different things. Among them: bitter reactions, acute analysis, some tears, and a new Peruvian blog. Ricardo Montero is the author and in its launching, he’s already trying to knock one of these bitter reactions down. … Continue reading
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New development economics blog
There is a new blog in the blogosphere! David McKenzie and other people from the World Bank just launched a new one: Development Impacts. Those interested in the rigorous impact evaluations, I think, will enjoy it. Spread the voice! Now … Continue reading
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Management Matters or be aware you’re not doing great
Today David McKenzie presented a very nice paper on the effect of management improvements on firm’s performance. First of all, let me introduce McKenzie. He’s known for expanding the Randomized Controlled Trials (RCT) methodology to the firm’s spectrum. His very … Continue reading
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Prosperity under revision
These days I kept thinking on Rodrik’s findings because they were specially relevant for Peru. He found a regularity: the transition from underdeveloped to developed economy implies a re-balancing between the productivity of agricultural sector and the non agricultural sector: … Continue reading
Ask the author
There are two books soon to be released in April which, I think, will be worth reading not only for people in the development economics business, but also for those interested in development in general. I got a free copy … Continue reading
My problem with the “knowledge”
I found this in the Project Syndicate website. The author points to the knowledge that should be added to exports in order to make them more effective: It is reasonable to presume that the commodity boom’s positive effect on Latin … Continue reading
Posted in development economics, growth
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The Possessed 