The subtitle of this new paper is “Evidence From Washington State Administrative Records,” and the authors are Jennifer Wu, Chenoa Yorgason, Hanna Folsz, Cassandra Handan-Nader, Andrew Myers, Tobias Nowacki, Daniel M. Thompson, Jesse Yoder, and Andrew B. Hall. Here is the abstract: A commonly expressed concern about vote-by-mail in the United States is that mail-in […]
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Read moreTyler and I interview each other on COVID for EconED and then we take questions on business cycles, the new edition of our textbook and teaching online. Just prior to the interview we premiered our MRU video on The Economics of COVID, which we refer to at the beginning if you haven’t already seen it. […]
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Read moreAnd: Box office results fit the story as well. Here is the full paper by Shaan Kamal, et.al. Via Michelle Dawson.
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Read moreFrom Ravi Kanbur, Yue Wang, and Xiaobo Zhang: This paper argues that after a quarter century of sharp and sustained increase, Chinese inequality is now plateauing and, according to some measures, even declining. A number of papers have been harbingers of this conclusion, but this paper consolidates the literature indicating a turnaround, and provides empirical […]
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Read moreDavid is repeatedly writing critiques of my writings on Covid-19. (Google to them if you wish, they are so off base and misrepresentative I don’t think they deserve a link, and furthermore I find it almost impossible to track down EconLog archives under their new system.) Virtually all of his points revolve around simple or […]
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Read moreBased on a simple and intuitive point, the title of the paper is: “How Should Tax Progressivity Respond to Rising Income Inequality?”, and the answer is something you hardly ever hear acknowledged: When facing shifts in the income distribution like those observed in the US, a utilitarian planner chooses higher progressivity in response to larger […]
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Read moreMurder hornets are in the news. Japanese honey bees have an amazing defense: Wikipedia: Beekeepers in Japan attempted to introduce western honey bees (Apis mellifera) for the sake of their high productivity. Western honey bees have no innate defense against the hornets, which can rapidly destroy their colonies.[3] Although a handful of Asian giant hornets […]
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Read moreSome interesting data in this Storyline test. I was surprised about the abortion rate and the birth rate among older women, although for the latter the direction was obvious it seems like an understudied phenomena.
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Read moreUniversities must act to eradicate discrimination against working-class students, including the mockery of regional accents, equality campaigners have said. A Guardian investigation has found widespread evidence of students at some of the country’s leading universities being ridiculed over their accents and backgrounds, in some cases prompting them to leave education…. The Social Mobility Commission (SMC), […]
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Read moreThe author is Virginia Postrel, and yes studying the history of textiles is one of the very best ways to better understand markets. This book does that. You can pre-order here. Here is Virginia’s adapted WSJ essay.
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