Joachim Voth points me to a paper that looks for a “hierarchy of science” according to whether or not the discipline publishes null results. Here’s how a
That’s the theme of the latest Science issue, which is ungated for a very short while. then ironically it will be private again.
I assign Angrist and Pischke’s Mostly Harmless Econometrics in virtually all of my graduate courses in economics and political science, largely because it’s one of
The OECD has gotten mining companies together to sign an agreement on what they will and won’t do. Joan Esteban pointed me to Annex 2, on
Readers may recall the debate on this blog about whether or not the Ebola hysteria was indeed hysterical and counterproductive, or a necessary and sensible response to an out-of-control
That statement has a p>.1. It is from xkcd, the greatest nerd comic strip in history.
Gelman, a Columbia statistician and political scientist, voices his discomfort with the behavioralist research and policy attitudes of recent years: I see a common thread
There are more.
Missing: alternate routes, street view, and (thank you commenter) orc traffic. Source. Hat tip to @TimHarford
I’ve been training, planing, taxi-ing, and busing around Europe for conferences and talks, which turned out to be the perfect amount of time to listen
Stephen Fish from Berkeley asks this question in the Washington Post Monkey Cage. The core of his answer: …the truth is, in the contemporary world, Christians
Here’s a more extreme version of the same principle. Adopt a rule that no new task can be deferred: if accepted, it must be the
An earlier version of this article misstated the name of the country whose army chased Tommy Caldwell’s kidnappers. As the article correctly noted elsewhere, Caldwell
It’s my second year, so this makes it a tradition. I take the conceit of grading it like one of my development class exams. But
Specifically, the study found that women whose wedding cost more than $20,000 divorced at a rate roughly 1.6 times higher than women whose wedding cost
Russ Roberts interviews Josh Angrist, king of causality Does LaTeX lead to more paper errors than R? (I prefer LyX) (Hat tip to Development Impact blog
I’m giving some talks next week on some new, not released papers: Monday Jan 26, 1230-2pm “More sweatshops for Africa? A randomized trial of industrial
No, this is not the beginning of the joke, but rather something more amazing. The black man in question is Daryl Davies, a well-known jazz
“When Colorado legalized marijuana two years ago, nobody was quite ready for the problem of exploding houses” Innovations in trash talk Things you will probably
Western societies have worked out internal compromises over time in an endeavour to build durable political societies. …Their thrust is to call a ceasefire in
One of the more interesting economics job market papers this year is from Réka Juhász at LSE. In brief, she shows that Britain’s naval blockade of France protected
