~marginalrevolution | Bookmarks (58)
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Hiring discrimination sentences to ponder - Marginal REVOLUTION
Several common measures — like employing a chief diversity officer, offering diversity training or having a...
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Deregulate our universities - Marginal REVOLUTION
Take a look at how the number of federal regulations and policies governing research at universities...
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Tying the Knot - Marginal REVOLUTION
Dobbs, of course, was the Supreme Court decision saying that the constitution does not provide a...
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South Africa fact of the day - Marginal REVOLUTION
Two economists from the Harvard Growth Lab (Shah and Sturzenegger) estimate that the average transport costs...
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Why a Housing Shortage Exists Despite More Houses Per Person - Marginal REVOLUTION
When I post about the skyrocketing price of housing and the need to build, commentators (include...
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Response from Devin Pope, on religious attendance - Marginal REVOLUTION
All of this is from Devin Pope, in response to Lyman Stone (and myself). Here was...
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Do protests matter? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Only rarely: Recent social movements stand out by their spontaneous nature and lack of stable leadership,...
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Economic growth sentences to ponder, Argentina fact of the day - Marginal REVOLUTION
Sometimes I feel like focusing on policies that only affect growth rates by a few tenths...
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Data on private security forces - Marginal REVOLUTION
From a recent paper: We bring novel data to bear on these questions, presenting the largest...
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LDS and indeed USA fact of the day - Marginal REVOLUTION
Thus, approximately 1 out of 7 people who I classify as a Latter-day Saint attends [religious...
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Fair coins aren't fair - Marginal REVOLUTION
Many people have flipped coins but few have stopped to ponder the statistical and physical intricacies...
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350+ coauthors study reproducibility in economics - Marginal REVOLUTION
Jon Hartley is one I know, here is the abstract: This study pushes our understanding of...
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Economists do it with models? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Collaborations in economics across genders increased (12.5% increase of women coauthors per 100 men-authored papers) after...
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Is an African debt crisis returning? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Africa's debt crisis is back to where it was in the late 1990s, with almost one...
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Disparities in psychological traits and incomes - Marginal REVOLUTION
There are pronounced racial, ethnic, and gender gaps in income in the U.S. We investigate whether...
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An RCT for income-sharing agreements - Marginal REVOLUTION
Is this the first one? We conduct a survey-based experiment with 2,776 students at a non-profit...
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Netherlands fact of the day - Marginal REVOLUTION
The country, which is a bit bigger than Maryland, not only accomplished this feat but also...
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New results on intergenerational progress - Marginal REVOLUTION
The full paper title is “Has Intergenerational Progress Stalled? Income Growth Over Five Generations of Americans,”...
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Non-binary gender economics - Marginal REVOLUTION
Economics research has largely overlooked non-binary individuals. We aim to jump-start the literature by providing data...
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Which U.S. firms have grown in profitability? - Marginal REVOLUTION
China’s admission into the WTO in 2001 heralded a new era of globalization, increasing both import...
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Swedish economists seem to be doing OK - Marginal REVOLUTION
419 Swedish economists were asked which economics concepts are most important to understand and manage economics...
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U.S.A. yikes fact of the day - Marginal REVOLUTION
Between January 2016 and December 2022, the monthly antidepressant dispensing rate increased 66.3%, from 2575.9 to...
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Further data on alcohol use amongst American youth - Marginal REVOLUTION
This paper provides the first long-run assessment of adolescent alcohol control policies on later-life health and...
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Which nations have cultural inferiority complexes? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is the link, via the wisdom of Garett Jones. And OK, which nations have the...