After a hiatus, Ranil and Matt return to meet IN PERSON to discuss the learning crisis in developing countries and two papers: "Large Learning Gains in Pockets of Extreme Poverty: Experimental Evidence from Guinea Bissau" and "How much can we remedy very low learning levels in rural parts of...

Ranil and Matt are joined by Kate Orkin from the Blavatnik School of Government in Oxford to discuss Gender and the Dynamics of Economics Seminars by Pascaline Dupas, Alicia Sasser Modestino, Muriel Niederle, Justin Wolfers, and the Seminar Dynamics Collective. They talk about econ's gender...

Matt and Ranil discuss Travis Baseler's "Hidden Income and the Perceived Returns to Migration" which investigates the degree to which urban migrants lie about their true income to their relatives back home, the degree to which this is driven by the pressures to remit money and, as a result, how...