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Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 03 — Social Experiments: Why and How?

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In this lecture, Prof. Esther Duflo talks about social experiments done to understand what interventions work best to mitigate world poverty. Recorded 2011.

Amar Bose: 6.312 Lecture 24—Air Absorption and Psychoachoustics

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Topics include: air absorption; architectural acoustics; psychoacoustics; digital signals; sampling process; convolution; square waves; all-pass network; experiments with acoustical instrument musicians; RCA experimen...

Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 15 — Risk and Insurance

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Prof. Abhijit Banerjee discusses the ways in which risk is costly to the poor and if insurance is beneficial to this population. Recorded 2011.

Amar G. Bose: 6.312 Lecture 12—Resistance and Acoustical Circuits

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Topics include: resistance, resistive elements; transformers; anechoic chamber; acoustical circuits; Kirchhoff's laws: KVL and KCL; Helmholtz resonator. Recorded: Oct. 19, 1995.

Patrick Winston: 6.034 Lecture 11 — Learning: Identification Trees, Disorder

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Recorded October 18th, 2010.

Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 26 — Five Thoughts in Place of a Sweeping Conclusion

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Five Thoughts in Place of a Sweeping Conclusion. Prof. Abhijit Banerjee provides some final thoughts to conclude the course on the challenges of world poverty. Recorded 2011.

Patrick Winston: 6.034 Lecture 22 — Probabilistic Inference II

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Recorded December 6, 2010.

Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 13 — How Do Families Decide?

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Prof. Esther Duflo continues the discussion from lecture 12, and also includes material on how families make decisions about family planning. Recorded 2011.