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...research on the effectiveness of socially oriented programs—especially microfinance institutions (MFIs). According to Professor of Economics Sendhil Mullainathan—one of the five panelists who spoke yesterday—NGOs and MFIs have been proliferating in South Asia in the past decade. What is lacking, Mullainathan and other panelists said, is data. “How do we know any [of these] programs work, and if the impact is worth the money?” said Mullainathan, who is a development economist. Besides encouraging students to look for summer opportunities in “action research...
Moore and other students in Economics 1035 may not have received their grades for that class because their grades were not submitted by the Registrar’s deadline, according to course instructor and Professor of Economics Sendhil Mullainathan...
...newest research, and we don’t have solutions to all of the problems he poses. That’s one of the reasons he runs it like a discussion,” says Baillie F. Aaron ’07, a student taking Economics 1035 with Mullainathan...
...Mullainathan incorporates discussions of crime, discrimination and other social phenomena into his course...
...trying to take social problems that are important,” Mullainathan says. “And I’m trying to say, ‘lets look at this one problem from an economic perspective and look at this problem from a psychological perspective, and look at how they complement or how they conflict with each other...