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Monthly Archives: November 2008

Savings with a Thrill

Friday, November 21, 2008

When I first heard about British Premium Bonds, I was fascinated by the concept. Instead of making fixed payments to bondholders, these assets pay out randomly, according to a monthly lottery. The more bonds you hold, the more chances you have to win. (Whether or not you win the monthly lottery, your [...]

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Agriculture and Climate Change

Saturday, November 15, 2008

I’m trying to put together a research proposal on the economic effects of climate change on agriculture. Here are some of the papers I’ve been looking at: Schlenker and Roberts, and Deschenes and Greenstone (the second paper was published in the AER in 2007, but the link I’ve provided is to a [...]

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Resurrecting this blog

Friday, November 14, 2008

I’ve decided to resurrect this blog after a nearly two year hiatus. It has a new name and a new focus. From now on, this will be an informal place for me to keep track of my daily thoughts about research, current events, and life in general. Think Pascal’s Pensées only not [...]

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