Andrew Leigh

I'm currently in the US, where I've been attending the American Economic Association meetings in Denver (aka "the mile-high city").

Here's the full program. A few papers took my fancy:

• Tony Atkinson on welfare economics


• Robert Shiller on economists as worldly philosophers


• Intergenerational transmission of cognitive and non-cognitive abilities


• Iwan Barankay's randomised experiment on the impact of showing salespeople their relative ranking


• An Indian randomised experiment tests the impact of management consultants (this result surprised me as much as the Barankay paper)


• How access to food stamps helped in-utero babies


• A deathly approach to estimating CEO value


• How financially literate are Americans?


• Grade expectations by university students