Sex Differences in Personality are Large and Important - Marginal REVOLUTION
Men and women are different. A seemingly obvious fact to most of humanity but a long-time...
Sierra Canyon High School - Marginal REVOLUTION
15-year-old Lebron James Jr. goes there, and his games will be on ESPN 15 times this...
Another take on q-factors and investment CAPM - Marginal REVOLUTION
Standard consumption CAPM applies a constant discount rate across all stocks, but surely that is odd...
Friday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Art Carden reviews Stubborn Attachments. 2. Victoria Falls drying to a trickle. 3. Pomegranate markets...
Boris Johnson sentences to ponder - Marginal REVOLUTION
He has done what no other conservative leader in the West has done: He has co-opted...
Taiwan fact of the day? - Marginal REVOLUTION
This year, the World Bank told current and prospective employees of Taiwanese nationality they must present...
What should I ask Ezra Klein? - Marginal REVOLUTION
I will be doing a Conversation with him, and he has a new book coming out...
q-Factors and Investment CAPM - Marginal REVOLUTION
The new paper by Lu Zhang with that title strikes me as potentially important, though I...
The mattress-stealing, luxury hotel culture that is German - Marginal REVOLUTION
Some hotel guests wake so rested at luxury properties that they purchase the same kind of...
A simple word in defense of David Cameron - Marginal REVOLUTION
I remain a supporter of Remain, for reasons I will not recap here, but I am...
We need more indices - Marginal REVOLUTION
That is the upshot of my latest Bloomberg column, as the Doing Business index, PISA scores,...
Thursday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Markets in everything: “New Zealand has ordered about 1,290 square feet of human skin from...
The macro frontier (not your grandpa's Keynesian economics, or is it?) - Marginal REVOLUTION
We argue that the input-output network of investment goods across sectors is an important propagation mechanism...
Martin Gurri on the current Age of Revolt - Marginal REVOLUTION
The question, for me, is whether these repeated crises of authority at the national level represent...
Sweden recovers in the PISA tables - Marginal REVOLUTION
The 2013 edition of the survey was a wake-up call for Sweden, which experienced a sharp...
Wednesday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Turn almost every object into a data storage unit? 2. China threatens Faroese prime minister....
A Symposium for John Perry Barlow - Marginal REVOLUTION
John Perry Barlow, who passed away in 2018, penned two influential essays early in the web’s...
Non-cognitive skills and earnings in Canada - Marginal REVOLUTION
This newly published paper (click on the first link here) by McLean, Bouaissa, Rainville, and Auger...