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No strings attached

July 10, 2017

Can conflicts of interest be mutually beneficial?

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Our favorite data visualizations from the past year

July 3, 2017

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A “dark side” to the commodity boom in Africa

June 28, 2017

New evidence on the resource curse

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An empirical turn in economics research

June 26, 2017

Economics journals are publishing more empirical research and less theory

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What's in a name?

June 19, 2017

Companies named for their founders do better. This video explains why more firms don't bear their owners’ names

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The resource curse in action

June 12, 2017

Violence in mineral-rich regions of Africa rose along with commodity prices

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How the Great Fire of 1872 helped Boston grow

June 9, 2017

The upside of an urban disaster

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Does an older population crimp economic growth?

June 7, 2017

An aging workforce doesn't necessarily mean that a country's economic growth will slow

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Separate and more equal?

May 24, 2017

Certain tax systems can discourage married women from working more.

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Whose jobs are the most recession-proof?

May 15, 2017

Where you want to be if the economy takes a dive