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So pleased to see my paper out in the BU Law Review! This paper surveys 50+ years of randomized control trials in criminal justice and shows that almost no interventions have lasting benefit — and the ones that do don't replicate in other settings. 1/ https://t.co/xIvIcCseGL pic.twitter.com/Duj4ybbbS6 — Megan Stevenson (@MeganTStevenson) January 2, 2024 The post Dept. of Uh-Oh appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION....

In the past five years, the number of applications to connect to the electricity grid — many of them for solar energy generation and storage — has increased tenfold, with waits of up to 15 years. The underinvestment is restricting the flow of cheap energy from Scottish wind farms to population centers in England and adding to […] The post Why Britain’s economy is failing appeared...

If you want to understand NFTs and where they are going, The Everything Token by web entrepreneur Steve Kaczynski and Harvard Business school professor Scott Duke Kominers is by far the best guide. Kaczynski and Kominers emphasize that NFTs are more than deeds to digital art they are an ideal way to create communities. Community […] The post The Everything Token appeared first on...

And at what margin? A new ideological struggle is brewing, yet we have not yet recognized it as such.  The question is to what extent cities are for tourists, or for their current residents.  Here is a report from Vermont: A Vermont town known for its autumn foliage has closed its roads to the public […] The post Are cities for tourists or residents?...

Good Binyamin Appelbaum piece on the difficulties of building in NYC. The data will be familiar but I especially appreciate this vibe which we need more of: I hope someday I’ll be walking with my children on the Lower East Side or the Upper West Side or Brooklyn Heights. We’ll pass one of the places […] The post A City Not a Museum appeared...

Abstract: Previous studies of the effect of ridesharing on traffic fatalities have yielded inconsistent, often contradictory conclusions. In this paper we revisit this question using proprietary data from Uber measuring monthly rideshare activity at the Census tract level. Using these more detailed data, we find a consistent negative effect of ridesharing on traffic fatalities. Impacts […] The post Uber and Traffic Fatalities appeared first...

Major win for the US on high-skilled immigration policy: “USCIS data show that the number of O-1A visas awarded in the first year of the revised guidance jumped by almost 30% The number of STEM EB-2 visas after a ‘national interest’ waiver shot up by 55%” pic.twitter.com/PhIvdVxm2K — Alec Stapp (@AlecStapp) December 30, 2023 The post U.S. high-skilled immigration appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION....

If you stare at just the exact right part of the toothpick, and measure the length from the tip, expressed in terms of the appropriate unit and converted into binary, and then translated into English, you can find any message you want.  You just have to pinpoint your gaze very very exactly (I call this […] The post Toothpick producers violate NYT copyright appeared...