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What we’re grateful for – Marginal REVOLUTION

Here is the Free Press symposium, here is my contribution: Tyler Cowen, columnist I am grateful for how many parts of the world I can

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Side-Walking Problems

Local Law 11 requires owners of New York City’s 16,000-plus buildings over six stories to get a “close-up, hands-on” facade inspection every five years. Repair

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Nano Banana Pro does Marginal Revolution

Via Rohit Krishnan. The post Nano Banana Pro does Marginal Revolution appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Source link

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Confidently Wrong

If you’re going to challenge a scientific consensus, you better know the material. Most of us, most of the time, don’t—so deferring to expert consensus

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I talk with Michael Klein

Name: Greg Mankiw Location: United States I am the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University. I use this blog to keep in

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UCSD Faculty Sound Alarm on Declining Student Skills

The UC San Diego Senate Report on Admissions documents a sharp decline in students’ math and reading skills—a warning that has been sounded before, but

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One-Third of US Families Earn Over $150,000

It’s astonishing that the richest country in world history could convince itself that it was plundered by immigrants and trade. Truly astonishing. From Jeremy Horpedahl

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Affordability sentences to ponder

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ADP Private NFP and Implied BLS NFP [updated]

ADP released +42K private NFP surprises upside (+32K Bloomberg consensus). Figure 1: ADP private NFP, October release (blue), Bloomberg consensus of 10/3

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Sentences to ponder

We find that interventions (e.g., busing) that move children to a more favorable neighborhood have large effects but lose impact when they are scaled up