{"id":1762,"date":"2015-09-25T14:54:41","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T21:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/?p=1762"},"modified":"2015-09-25T14:54:41","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T21:54:41","slug":"economics-that-really-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/2015\/09\/25\/economics-that-really-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Economics That Really Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quick note on this Friday regarding a new-ish (and new to me) economics blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.econthatmatters.com\">Economics That Really Matters<\/a>. With posts written by graduate students and young faculty in economics, the blog aims<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>to contribute to the discourse of development economics, encourage debate relevant to poverty reduction and agricultural development, and share thoughts from our research experiences.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The most recent article is written by a friend and former colleague\u00a0of mine (and killer poker player!) Carolina Castilla. She <a href=\"http:\/\/www.econthatmatters.com\/2015\/09\/gender-differences-in-sharing-between-spouses\/\">employs field experiments to test outcomes of a trust game to analyze\u00a0differences in household spending patterns between men and women<\/a>. The work has important policy implications\u00a0in the developing world and beyond &#8211; so go check it out!<\/p>\n<p>Happy weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick note on this Friday regarding a new-ish (and new to me) economics blog: Economics That Really Matters. With posts written by graduate students and young faculty in economics, the blog aims to contribute to the discourse of development economics, encourage debate relevant to poverty reduction and agricultural development, and share thoughts from our research experiences. The most recent article is written by a friend and former colleague\u00a0of mine (and killer poker player!) Carolina Castilla. She employs field experiments to test outcomes of a trust game to analyze\u00a0differences in household spending patterns between men and women. The work has <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/2015\/09\/25\/economics-that-really-matters\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Economics That Really Matters<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":368,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[285,286,287,37],"class_list":["post-1762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-blog","tag-development-economics","tag-gender","tag-poverty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1764,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions\/1764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}