Readers of this blog will know that I’m a big fan of behavioral economics.  I’m constantly applying its lessons to a host of development issues, from consumer finance to aid effectiveness to health care to (my personal favorite) venture capital.  The list goes on and on.  I find the intersection of psychology and economics so central to my thinking that I when I first encountered it at the Kennedy School I was surprised to realize it wasn’t part of the core MPAID curriculum. So surprise...

I generally resist summarizing an interesting post or article, but occasionally one comes along that is just too good to risk losing in a Twitter stream.  I read a fantastic blog post about conditional cash transfers (CCTs) the other day by Lant Pritchett, one of my former professors at the Kennedy School.  It’s pretty technical and sometimes Lant is hard to follow if you’re not a trained economist (I shudder to think how much I missed in his class my first semester), so it seems all the ...

It’s been nearly a year since my last post, and in all sincerity, over a year and a half since I’ve blogged in earnest. Despite my best intentions of keeping up this blog upon graduation from the Kennedy school, life swept me away.  To be fair, I’ve been busy.  I planned two weddings.  My husband and I bought and remodeled a home.  And most importantly, I brought an incredible little person into the world last May.

With the dust now settling on this new era of my personal life, it’s fi...