~marginalrevolution | Bookmarks (24)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Gender Gap in Confidence: Expected but Not Accounted For - Marginal REVOLUTION
We investigate how the gender gap in confidence affects the views that evaluators (e.g., employers) hold...
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Lithium - Marginal REVOLUTION
WEF 2002: The world could face lithium shortages by 2025, the International Energy Agency (IEA) says,...
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The California tax burden is driving people out - Marginal REVOLUTION
That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is one bit: California’s highest income...
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Is Science a Public Good? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Science seems like a public good; in theory, ideas are non-rivalrous and non-excludable. But the closer...
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Matriline versus Patriline: Social Mobility in England, 1754-2023 - Marginal REVOLUTION
Greg Clark may well be the most important social scientist of the 21st century. His use...
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Did the Trump tariffs help the heartland? - Marginal REVOLUTION
No, but they did get him some votes there: We study the economic and political consequences...
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Quick tour of Argentina's fiscal deficit (from my email, anonymous author) - Marginal REVOLUTION
I won’t double indent, but this is not by me, though I agree with it: “I...
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No, Covid spending wasn't the only factor, but... - Marginal REVOLUTION
Barro, CPI rate correlation with covid spending in 37 countries pic.twitter.com/AD47gPTbYb — 161phi (@161phi) January 21,...
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How sticky are wages in nominal terms? - Marginal REVOLUTION
There is a new paper on this topic, with what seems to be very good data:...
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World's First Dominant Assurance Contract Platform - Marginal REVOLUTION
In September I alerted you to a crowdfunding campaign to produce a dominant assurance contract/refund bonus...
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Department of Uh-Oh, economic research edition - Marginal REVOLUTION
We assess statistical power and excess statistical significance among 31 leading economics general interest and field...
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Are chatbots better than we are? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Maybe so: We administer a Turing Test to AI Chatbots. We examine how Chatbots behave in...
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The economic returns to psychological interventions - Marginal REVOLUTION
That is the topic of my Bloomberg column, here is one excerpt: One study of Ethiopia looked at...