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1/3/2019“The results show that individuals with relatively low time discounting are persistently positioned higher in the wealth distribution.” Or try this link.nnRpositive correlation between patience and the position in the wealth distribution
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/58b5/6bccebd53026de7542ebde5020b2af2cf34e.pdf
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/01/thursday-assorted-links-187.html
efficient mkts (wealth/inequality 'justified')
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1/4/2019“Examining explanations for the rise of in-and-outs [labor force participation], I find little evidence to suggest that changes in labor demand are responsible.” Other interesting papers at the same link, such as: “Overall, our findings suggest that there is no simple causal relationship between economic conditions and the abuse of opioids.” And opioids actually seem to boost labor force participation of women.nnRThe rise of in-and-outs forms a different picture of declinging labor supply than the common view of men permanently withdrawn from the LF
https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/2019/preliminary/608?q=eNqrVipOLS7OzM8LqSxIVbKqhnGVrJQMlWp1lBKLi_OTgRwlHaWS1KJcXAgrJbESKpSZmwphlWWmloO0FxUUXDAFTA1AegsS00GyRkq1XDBuoh4V
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/01/friday-assorted-links-190.html
aea
rational labor supply effects drive labor mkt participation (mkt efficiency/real business cycle-ish?)
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1/4/2019“…we find no evidence that mothers’ education reduces their support for FGC.”nnNeducation reform increases mothers' education but does not impact the probability that their daughters are cut
https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/2019/preliminary/798?q=eNqrVipOLS7OzM8LqSxIVbKqhnGVrJQMlWp1lBKLi_OTgRwlHaWS1KJcXAgrJbESKpSZmwphlWWmloO0FxUUXDAFTA1AegsS00GyRkq1XDBuoh4V
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/01/friday-assorted-links-190.html
aea
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1/4/2019“Contrary to other groups, internet searches and reported cases of arrest-related deaths have a strong negative well-being effect within the Black community that can explain up to half the Black-White [well-being] decline after 2013.”nnLinternet searches and reported cases of arrest-related deaths have a strong negative well-being effect within the Black community
https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/2019/preliminary/230?q=eNqrVipOLS7OzM8LqSxIVbKqhnGVrJQMlWp1lBKLi_OTgRwlHaWS1KJcXAgrJbESKpSZmwphlWWmloO0FxUUXDAFTA1AegsS00GyhkAOXDCMpB5E
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/01/friday-assorted-links-190.html
aeadiscrimination
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1/5/2019Does market concentration in homebuilding matter?ynLincrease in market concentration in the past decade has led to lower production volume, fewer units in the production pipeline, and greater unit price volatility
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3303984
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/01/saturday-assorted-links-193.html
ssrn
harm from concentration/mkt failure
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1/10/2019Are selling decisions less rational than buying decisions?ynNinvestors are prone to a systematic, costly heuristic process when selling but not when buying
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3301277
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/01/thursday-assorted-links-188.html
ssrn
maybe implies market inefficiency so maybe L?
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1/12/2019Do celebrity governors even matter?ynNJesse Ventura of Minnesota and Arnold Schwarzenegger of California did not have significant impact on state's expenditures or deficits
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10101-018-0218-z
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/01/saturday-assorted-links-194.html
economics of governance
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1/15/2019Many attitudes are becoming more neutral, except toward the overweight.nnRattitudes about aspects of identity (race, etc) are becoming more neutral in recent years
http://sci-hub.tw/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797618813087
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/01/tuesday-assorted-links-197.html
psychological science
decreasing discrimination
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1/16/2019Folklore. And Does scientific progress affect culture?nnLDarwin's theory had broad cultural implications
https://www.nber.org/papers/w25429#fromrss
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/01/wednesday-assorted-links-185.html
nber
pro-public good (scientific discoveries have important spillover benefits in society)
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1/30/2019How color palettes affect painting prices.nnNpaintings with more diverse colors sell for more than paintings in monochromatic style
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00181-017-1413-4
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/01/wednesday-assorted-links-186.html
empirical economics
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1/31/2019The welfare effects of social media, a new paper by Hunt Allcott, Luca Braghieri, Sarah Eichmeyer, and Matthew Gentzkow. (On the road, have not had a chance to read it yet.) And the NYT summary. My guess is this is the best paper on social media/Facebook so far.nnNdeactivating FB makes people less polarized, happier, and less informed
http://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/research/facebook.pdf
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/01/thursday-assorted-links-192.html
stanford
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2/1/2019“Grant abstracts that are longer than the average abstract, contain fewer common words, and are written with more verbal certainty receive more money from the NSF (approximately $372 per one-word increase).”nnNlanguage patterns in grant proposals correspond to award amount
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0261927X18824859
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/02/friday-assorted-links-194.html
journal of language and social psych
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2/1/2019Loss aversion in professional golfnnNloss averse behavior exists among pro golfers
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3311649
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/02/friday-assorted-links-194.html
ssrn
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2/1/2019Women in economics, from Journal of Economic Perspectives, here, here, and here.nnLlow percentage of women in econ phd and professorships has remained constant in recent years
https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.33.1.3
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/02/friday-assorted-links-194.html
journal of economic perspectives
discrimination
this link is included 3 times?
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2/1/2019Women in economics, from Journal of Economic Perspectives, here, here, and here.nnLthere are large differences in culture and practices across graduate programs in economics; these differences are associated with better and worse relative outcomes for women
https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.33.1.23
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/02/friday-assorted-links-194.html
journal of economic perspectives
discrimination
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2/1/2019Women in economics, from Journal of Economic Perspectives, here, here, and here.nnLtargeted intervention can help address the gender gap in economics
https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.33.1.43
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/02/friday-assorted-links-194.html
journal of economic perspectives
discrimination
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2/2/2019Are female presidents less popular?ynLfemale leaders have the deck stacked against them when it comes to mass support
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-political-science/article/presidents-sex-and-popularity-baselines-dynamics-and-policy-performance/CF9A7262C02256D86FBCAF760D108479
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/02/saturday-assorted-links-197.html
british journal of political sci
discrimination
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2/3/2019Most financial anomalies don’t replicate.nnRmost financial anomalies don't replicate
https://academic.oup.com/rfs/advance-article/doi/10.1093/rfs/hhy131/5236964
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/02/sunday-assorted-links-200.html
review of financial studies
efficient mkts
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2/4/2019“We find that 35% of the decline in fertility between 2007 and 2016 can be explained by declines in births that were likely unintended, and that this is driven by drops in births to young women.”nnLthe decline in unintended births between 2007 and 2016 explains about a third of the overall drop in fertility over the period
https://www.nber.org/papers/w25521
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/02/monday-assorted-links-190.html
nber
pro (lefty) regulation (changes in policy (afforable care act etc) and access to better contraceptives decreased the unintended birth rate. Govt policies like better childcare, education, and parental leave should be considered)
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2/4/2019“Curing diseases like Alzheimer’s and dementia can lead to a compounded output increase of 5.4% while improving welfare for all agents.”nnNaging population is costly for society and curing alzheimers and dementia would substantially reduce costs
https://www.nber.org/papers/w25498#fromrss
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/02/monday-assorted-links-190.html
nber
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2/10/2019Do the effects of British colonialism wear off?ynNbritish colonial rule created democracies that have not lasted with time. so this shows positive effects of colonial rule did not last. could be inteprreted as pro-L or pro-R
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0147596718302142
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/02/sunday-assorted-links-201.html
Journal of Comparative Economics
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2/11/2019“…the relatively recent increasing gender parity in association presidents of ASA and PAA but not AEA.” and “…socialization at home can explain a non-trivial part of the observed gender disparities in mathematics performance…”nnLtrends of aging and increasing gender diversity in president of academic associations
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2378023118825221
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/02/monday-assorted-links-191.html
Socius
discrimination (identify structures and policies needed to counteract racism and sexism in academia)
repeated
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2/11/2019“…the relatively recent increasing gender parity in association presidents of ASA and PAA but not AEA.” and “…socialization at home can explain a non-trivial part of the observed gender disparities in mathematics performance…”nnLattitudes toward gender at home can explain part of gender disparities in math performance
https://www.nber.org/papers/w25535#fromrss
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/02/monday-assorted-links-191.html
nber
discrimination (maybe? maybe should be N?)
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2/11/2019Alzheimer’s and portfolio decisions.nnNgenetic predisposition for AD correlates with, but is not causally related to older individuals’ wealth holdings
https://www.nber.org/papers/w25526#fromrss
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/02/monday-assorted-links-191.html
nber
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2/11/2019Intergenerational mobility in africannL wide regional variation in educational mobility in Africa
https://www.nber.org/papers/w25534#fromrss
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/02/monday-assorted-links-191.html
nber
pro public goods (transportation etc increase IM)
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2/17/2019India’s counterforce temptations with Pakistan (very important reading right now).nnNIndia has quietly developed or acquired many of the capabilities that might make a counterforce strike possible
https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/isec_a_00340
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/02/sunday-assorted-links-202.html
international security
slant = n
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2/18/2019“Contrary to conventional wisdom, movements in the outflow rate account for most of the variation of the labor force participation rate: the LFPR increases in tight labor markets because fewer workers leave the labor force, not because more nonparticipants enter.” Link here.nnNthe LFPR increases in tight labor markets because fewer workers leave the labor force, not because more nonparticipants enter
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3324216
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/02/monday-assorted-links-192.html
ssrnunclear?
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2/18/2019Only male movie stars matter for box office.nnRmale movie stars boost movies performance
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13504851.2018.1495818?journalCode=rael20
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/02/monday-assorted-links-192.html
Applied Economics Letters
market-driven discrimination
slant = R
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2/21/2019Venting as epistemic worknnNif one vents to the right sort of person, knowledge can be gained about an oppressive social structure, one’s place in it, and how to repair the epistemic damage it creates
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02691728.2018.1561762?journalCode=tsep20
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/02/thursday-assorted-links-195.html
Social Epistemology
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2/24/2019“Association analysis in over 329,000 individuals identifies 116 independent variants influencing neuroticism.“nnNfinds genetic markers of neuroticism and connection to depressive symptoms
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-017-0013-8
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/02/sunday-assorted-links-203.html
nature
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2/25/2019The problem is that children do not make Europeans happy.nnNfamily finances play a key role in returns to parents happiness
https://www.nber.org/papers/w25597#fromrss
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/02/monday-assorted-links-193.html
nber
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2/26/2019“In certain situations, there appear differences between the behavior of people trained in economics and other groups, but as the existing evidence is mostly ambiguous, a comprehensive picture of the nature and sources of these differences has not yet emerged.” Link here.nnNpeople trained in economics behave differently
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0569434519829433
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/02/tuesday-assorted-links-201.html
american economist
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3/4/2019The rising returns to genius.nnRinnovation in digitized capital and labor can decrease wages and interest rates in the short and long run
https://www.nber.org/papers/w25585
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/03/monday-assorted-links-194.html
nber
efficient mkts (wealth/inequality justified)
slant = R
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3/4/2019“…we find asymmetries in individuals’ willingness to venture into cross-cutting spaces, with conservatives more likely to follow media and political accounts classified as left-leaning than the reverse.”nnRconservatives are more open minded in terms of which social media accounts they follow
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2158244019832705
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/03/monday-assorted-links-194.html
sage open
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3/5/2019“…unfunded pension benefits grow faster under Democratic-party mayors.”nnRunfunded pensions are presumably bad!
https://www.nber.org/papers/w25601#fromrss
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/03/tuesday-assorted-links-202.html
nberanti-Dem
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3/6/2019“We find evidence supporting our hypothesis that the collaboration effect operates by creating a sense of debt owed to one’s collaborator.“nnNthe collaboration effect operates by creating a sense of debt owed to one’s collaborator
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-019-0530-9
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/03/wednesday-assorted-links-191.html
nature
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3/12/2019The deadweight loss of social recognition.nnNsocial recognition increases YMCA attendance by 17-23% over a one-month period
https://www.nber.org/papers/w25637#fromrss
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/03/tuesday-assorted-links-203.html
nber
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3/14/2019East germans cheat morennREast Germans exposed to socialism cheat more than West Germans exposed to capitalism
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0176268018303744
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/03/thursday-assorted-links-198.html
european journal of political economy
pro-capitalism/anti-socialism
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3/16/2019Slot restrictions raise air fairsnnRslot restrictions (regulation) raise airfair (prices)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212012218300893
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/03/saturday-assorted-links-203.html
economics of transportation
anti-regulation
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3/17/2019Was Irish migration negative selection?ynNsons of farmers and illiterate men were more likely to emigrate than their literate and skilled counterparts
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-economic-history/article/cream-of-the-crop-geography-networks-and-irish-migrant-selection-in-the-age-of-mass-migration/7C4F20089343156624FCF09173254B65
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/03/sunday-assorted-links-206.html
journal of economic history
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3/19/2019Minimum wage hikes increase property crime.nnRmin wage increases crime
https://www.nber.org/papers/w25647#fromrss
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/03/tuesday-assorted-links-204.html
nberanti min wage
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3/19/2019Your memory influences the rent you end up with.nnNreference price for housing is based on past experience, not rational decision making
https://www.nber.org/papers/w25650#fromrss
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/03/tuesday-assorted-links-204.html
nber
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3/20/2019The wisdom of polarized crowds?ynNpolarized teams consisting of a balanced set of ideologically diverse editors produce articles of a higher quality than homogeneous teams
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-019-0541-6.epdf?author_access_token=OBbRz4-TlWv-jI-C45Zh8NRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0OiMcmZk1otetPVC1EgJIIYkf4BJ1F74E1duh93_syk-pw2d96grsA473E7fo_WRDbEdPtDBzzkn3Jyt7yGsNSpkklxqjkI1Fvvuw8MHqiyFw%3D%3D
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/03/wednesday-assorted-links-193.html
nature
institutions should implement policies to ensure and prioritize ideological diversity
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3/23/2019Psychopathy by individual state, D.C. a champ. How is New Jersey only number nine?nnNmeasures psychopathy using "big 5" personality traits across states
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844018365575
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/03/saturday-assorted-links-204.html
heliyon
question mark is not about result
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3/26/2019A new paper on automation that actually has some new and interesting results.nnLrecent stagnation in labor demand is explained by automation
https://www.nber.org/papers/w25684
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/03/tuesday-assorted-links-205.html
nber
pro govt intervention (suggest tax and R&D policies to raise labor share in face of automation) (but note link says 'actually'!)
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3/27/2019New paper on labor market powernnLwelfare losses from labor market pwr, but welfare gains from min wage
http://www.simonmongey.com/uploads/6/5/6/6/65665741/berger_herkenhoff_mongey_-_labor_market_power.pdf
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/03/wednesday-assorted-links-194.html
pro min wage
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3/30/2019“CEOs imbue organizations with feelings, increasing punishment satisfaction and apology effectiveness.“nnNpeople may use the CEO's ability to feel as a proxy for the organization's perceived ability to feel
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103117307606?via%3Dihub
https://marginalrevolution.com/page/7?s=%22assorted+links%22
journal of experimental social psych
unclear if pro or anti- (true) mkt (high) CEO pay
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4/1/2019Do liberals and conservatives share the same harm-based moral template?ynNpast research has substantially exaggerated moral differences between liberals and conservatives.
https://chelseaschein.web.unc.edu/files/2016/11/Unifying_Moral_Dyad.pdf
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/04/monday-assorted-links-198.html
unc
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4/4/2019How Southern white wealth recovered after the Civil War.nnLsons of slaveholders recovered income and wealth due to social networks (supports long run effects of slavery)
https://www.nber.org/papers/w25700#fromrss
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/04/thursday-assorted-links-201.html
nber
wealth inequality due to history
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4/5/2019Did pharma drug stocks know Trump was going to win?ynRsome sectors of the stock market seemed to anticipate the election outcome (pro market efficiency)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00036846.2019.1591608?journalCode=raec20
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/04/friday-assorted-links-203.html
applied economics
pro-efficient mkts
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4/5/2019Homes exposed to sea level rise (SLR) sell for approximately 7% less than observably equivalent unexposed properties equidistant from the beach.nnLHomes exposed to sea level rise (SLR) sell for approximately 7% less than observably equivalent unexposed properties equidistant from the beach.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304405X19300807
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/04/friday-assorted-links-203.html
journal of financial economics
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4/6/2019The productivity slowdown was transatlanticnnNproductivity growth slowdown from the early postwar years to the most recent decade was due to a retardation in technical change that affected the same industries by roughly the same magnitudes on both sides of the Atlantic
https://www.nber.org/papers/w25703#fromrss
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/04/saturday-assorted-links-206.html
nber
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4/7/2019The economic burden of Mexican crime.nnRthere is a negative relationship between local violence and labor market outcomes
http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2019/03/05/jhr.55.4.0716-8072R2.abstract
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/04/sunday-assorted-links-208.html
jhr
anti-crime (unclear N or R?)
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4/8/2019Did Jiangsu province jump-start Chinese economic growth, pre-1979?ynLFor Jiangsu, and perhaps for China, the political climacteric of 1976–78 may well have been less important than has been supposed
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/china-quarterly/article/late-maoist-industrial-revolution-economic-growth-in-jiangsu-province-19661978/F2829996893100E7F01DCE1ACFCCF1ED
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/04/monday-assorted-links-199.html
soas
pro-communism ("This holds out the intriguing possibility that a Chinese economic take-off, diffusing out of the Yangtze Delta, would have occurred even without post-1978 policy changes.")
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4/9/2019Will space colonization be fully automated?ynNspace colonizatio will be fully automated
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162518317281
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/04/tuesday-assorted-links-207.html
technological forecasting
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4/13/2019“Rapidly declining remarkability of temperature anomalies may obscure public perception of climate change.”nnLdeclining noteworthiness of unusual temps is not accompanied by reductions in their negative effects on sentiment
https://www.pnas.org/content/116/11/4905
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/04/saturday-assorted-links-207.html
pnas
pro-climate change regulation (implicitly?)
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4/16/2019 Are patents responsible for declining business dynamism? (Not my view, but fyi.) Here is a paper blaming the slowdown on a deficiency in knowledge diffusion, I blame talent differentials in those cases.ynL heavy use of intellectual property protection by market leaders limited knowledge diffusion
https://www.nber.org/papers/w25756#fromrss
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/04/tuesday-assorted-links-208.html
nber
mkt failure (identify need for intervention to target rising market concentration)
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4/16/2019“…measured productivity responds directly to competition.”nnRproductivity responds directly to competition
https://www.nber.org/papers/w25748#fromrss
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/04/tuesday-assorted-links-208.html
nber
efficient mkts (competition enhances productivity; maybe N?)
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4/16/2019“Relative to the official numbers, we estimate that [Chinese] GDP growth from 2010-2016 is 1.8 percentage points lower and the investment and savings rate in 2016 is 7 percentage points lower.”nnNlocal governments in china misreport economic statistics to get rewards for meeting growth and investment targets
https://www.nber.org/papers/w25754#fromrss
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/04/tuesday-assorted-links-208.html
nber
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4/20/2019“Our estimates uncover little evidence that influxes of Hispanics or non-citizen immigrants benefitted Trump relative to past Republicans, and in fact suggest that these changes helped his opponent, Hillary Clinton.”nnRinfluxes of hispanic immigrants helped Hillary Clinton more than Trump
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3351950
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/04/friday-assorted-links-206.html
ssrn
supports Republican theory that immigration provides electoral benefits to Democrats
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4/23/2019“…globalization, through enhanced capital mobility and high-skill emigration diminishes the generosity of the welfare state.”nnRfinancial globalization of a welfare- state economy generates a Pareto improvement.
https://www.nber.org/papers/w25772#fromrss
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/04/tuesday-assorted-links-209.html
nber
pro global mkts (Pareto improvement
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4/23/2019Verifying identity as a social intersection.nnNprovide a system of defining, verifying, and making use of identity through networks
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3375436
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/04/tuesday-assorted-links-209.html
ssrn
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4/24/2019“Our econometric results show that [African] political leaders’ birth regions receive substantially larger financial flows from China in the years when they hold power compared to what the same region receives at other times.“nnNpolitical leaders' birth regions receive substantially larger financial flows from China in the years when they hold power
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030438781831099X
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/04/wednesday-assorted-links-198.html
journal of development economics
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4/26/2019Does information overload invalidate efficient markets?ynLwhen information tends to infinite, the efficient market hypothesis ceases to be true
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1904/1904.03726.pdf
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/04/friday-assorted-links-207.html
anti efficient mkts
66
4/26/2019Do minorities pay more for mortgages?yyRthere are no differences in total fees by race or ethnicity
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3352876
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/04/friday-assorted-links-207.html
ssrnno discrimination
67
4/29/2019Predicting high-risk opioid prescriptions before they are given.nnNrisk of future opioid abuse can be predicted and inform policies
https://www.nber.org/papers/w25791#fromrss
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/04/monday-assorted-links-202.html
nber
68
4/30/2019“Contrary to popular accounts, this study finds that cross-national diffusion [of Google searches] is surprisingly rare—and seldom U.S. led—but occurs through a multichannel network with many different centers.”  And here is a picture.nnNcross-national diffusion is surprisingly rare
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/702007
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/04/tuesday-assorted-links-210.html
american journal of sociology
69
5/1/2019“Indeed, both studies revealed that while social liberals were overall more sympathetic to poor people than social conservatives, reading about White privilege decreased their sympathy for a poor White (vs. Black) person. Moreover, these shifts in sympathy were associated with greater punishment/blame and fewer external attributions for a poor White person’s plight. We conclude that, among social liberals, White privilege lessons may increase beliefs that poor White people have failed to take advantage of their racial privilege—leading to negative social evaluations.”nnRself explanatory?
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2019-22926-001
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/05/wednesday-assorted-links-199.html
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
70
5/2/2019“A Cryptographic Escrow for Treaty Declarations and Step-by-Step Verification.”nnLpresent a cryptographic escrow that allows a state to make a complete declaration of sites and assets at the outset and commit to its content, but only reveal the sensitive information therein sequentially
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08929882.2019.1573483
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/05/thursday-assorted-links-205.html
science and global security
public good (maybe N)
71
5/3/2019Lighthouse provision in premodern JapannnNmost lighthouses were funded privately
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ecin.12793
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/05/friday-assorted-links-208.html
economic inquiry
72
5/4/2019“Employing a comprehensive dataset on the incidence of hate crime across Germany, we first demonstrate that hate crime rises where men face disadvantages in local mating markets. Next, we deploy an original four-wave panel survey to confirm that support for hate crime increases when men fear that the inflow of refugees makes it more difficult to find female partners. Mate competition concerns remain a robust predictor even when controlling for anti-refugee views, perceived job competition, general frustration, and aggressiveness. We conclude that a more complete understanding of hate crime must incorporate mating markets and mate competition.”  Link here.nnNlink text is pretty detailed/self-explanatory. could be interpreted as argument for limiting refugees but not obvious so we're going w N
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3358780
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/05/saturday-assorted-links-209.html
ssrn
73
5/6/2019Street lighting reduces crimennNpretty clear!
https://www.nber.org/papers/w25798#fromrss
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/05/monday-assorted-links-203.html
nber
74
5/6/2019“Identifying the utility value of amenities through observed search behavior, we find that high satisfaction jobs are valued at 6 percent of lifetime consumption relative to low satisfaction jobs.”nnLhigher levels of college debt cause workers to choose jobs with higher wages and lower job satisfaction
https://www.nber.org/papers/w25801#fromrss
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/05/monday-assorted-links-203.html
nber
pro regulation of student debt (suggest reforming payment schemes to alleviate college debt burden ? - maybe N for this 1)
75
5/6/2019The benefits of debt forgiveness for studentsnnLbenefits to intervening in the student loan market to reduce consequences of debt
https://www.nber.org/papers/w25810#fromrss
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/05/monday-assorted-links-203.html
nber
pro regulation of student debt (suggest reforming payment schemes to alleviate college debt burden)
76
5/7/2019Can good charter schools be replicated?yyRreplication charter schools generate large achievement gains on par with those produced by their parent campuses
https://www.nber.org/papers/w25796#fromrss
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/05/tuesday-assorted-links-211.html
nber
pro charter schools... typically Republican position?
77
5/8/2019Who pays for the minimum wage?yyRmin wage increase in Hungary uneffective and paid 75% by consumers
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20171445&&from=f
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/05/wednesday-assorted-links-200.html
AERanti-min wage
78
5/10/2019The number of roles in theatre has decreased over time.nnNeconomics of theaters is related to the number of roles in plays
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0362331919300655
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/05/friday-assorted-links-209.html
the social science journal
79
5/11/2019Speculative: “These findings provide preliminary evidence that a propensity to exhibit the sunk cost bias may be an important feature associated with cannabis use.”ynRpropensity to exhibit the sunk cost bias may be an important feature associated with cannabis use
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2019-25337-001
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/05/saturday-assorted-links-210.html
Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology
anti-cannabis. "speculative" = ?
80
5/13/2019Multinational offshoring was behind much of employment deindustrialization.nnLoffshoring by multinationals was a key driver of the decline in manufacturing employment
https://www.nber.org/papers/w25824#fromrss
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/05/monday-assorted-links-204.html
nberanti-offshoring
81
5/13/2019Pay transparency in Canada led to lower academic salaries. And a smaller gender gap in salariesnnLpay disclosure laws reduced salaries and the gender pay gap in canada
https://www.nber.org/papers/w25834#fromrss
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/05/monday-assorted-links-204.html
nber
discrimination (evidence that payment structure was unequal (esp on basis of gender) and that laws are necessary to make salaries transparent)
82
5/17/2019“We find a positive relationship between intelligence scores and fertility, and this pattern is consistent across the [Swedish] cohorts we study.”nnNpositive relationship between intelligence scores and fertility
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2019.0359
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/05/friday-assorted-links-210.html
proceedings of royal society (biological sciences)
83
5/17/2019WalkAway: Observational Data on 150 Erstwhile Democrats.nnRindividuals who symbolically left the Democratic party found a civility gap between the left and non-left
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3389650
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/05/friday-assorted-links-210.html
ssrn
anti-Democrat (previous democrats cite issues with party)
84
5/17/2019Yonatan Berman: “We also find that absolute mobility decreases with income. Individuals and families occupying thelower ranks of the income distribution have a higher probability of increasing their income over short time periods than those occupying higher ranks. This also occurs during periods of in-creasing inequality. Our findings stem from the importance of the changes in the composition of income percentiles. These changes are over and above mechanical labor market dynamics and life cycle effects. We offer a simplified model to mathematically describe these findings.”  More here.nnRlower income levels have more income mobility
https://www.dropbox.com/s/h6r650313zwqe7d/mobility_recov2.pdf?dl=0
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/05/friday-assorted-links-210.html
pro mobility (maybe N?)
85
5/18/2019The other Nordic paradox (violence against women)nnRfinds high prevalence of intimate partner violence against women in countries with high levels of gender equality (nordic paradox)
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0217015
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/05/saturday-assorted-links-211.html
ploscosts of gender equality
86
5/18/2019“Between 1870 and 1916, over 80 percent of alliance ties were partially or completely covert. Otherwise, hidden pacts are rare. Why was secrecy prevalent in this particular period and not others?”nnNcovert military pacts are cululative and interdependent
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0022002719849676
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/05/saturday-assorted-links-211.html
journal of conflict resolution
87
5/19/2019Less social discounting from autisticsnnNhaving autism does not always exhibit selfish behavior
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aur.2130
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/05/sunday-assorted-links-214.html
autism research
88
5/21/2019“Our findings indicate that the repeal of nonmedical exemptions in California was only partially effective in improving vaccination coverage, and may have led parents to substitute between medical and nonmedical exemptions, leading to a net decline in total exemptions of just 1 percentage-point.”  Link here.nnNrepeal of nonmedical exemptions in california was only partially effective in improving vaccine coverage
https://www.nber.org/papers/w25847#fromrss
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/05/tuesday-assorted-links-213.html
nber
stress need for stronger vaccination policies in CA with fewer exemptions. anti anti-vaxxers but unclear if this is L or R?
89
5/21/2019Does price-fixing benefit corporate managers?yyLmanagers of cartel firms enjoy greater job security, receive higher cash bonuses, and more aggressively take profits from appreciated stock option awards
https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/mnsc.2018.3130
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/05/tuesday-assorted-links-213.html
management science
pro regulation (high-power corporate managers should be held accountable by stricter law)
90
5/25/2019Online reputations become inflated over time nnNonline ratings are prone to inflation over tiem
https://www.nber.org/papers/w25857#fromrss
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/05/tuesday-assorted-links-213.html
nber
91
5/27/2019Chinese robots and chinese wagesnnLrobot exposure has a negative effect on chinese workers
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3390271
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/05/monday-assorted-links-205.html
ssrn
anti-technology (suggests policy intervention to secure income equality in rapidly changing developing economies)
92
5/29/2019Mobile phones lowered murder ratesnnNexpansion of cell service lowered homicide rates in the 1990s
https://www.nber.org/papers/w25883#fromrss
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/05/wednesday-assorted-links-203.html
nber
93
5/29/2019Is the start-up deficit mainly the result of demographics?ynNdeclining growth rate of labor supply caused declining startup rate
https://www.nber.org/papers/w25874.pdf
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/05/wednesday-assorted-links-203.html
nber
identify immigration as channel to slowdown startup rate
94
5/30/2019Thank you calls do not seem to boost charitable giving.nnNthank you calls do not affect subsequent giving behavior
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3371327
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/05/thursday-assorted-links-209.html
ssrn
95
5/31/2019Women in European economics.nnLhigher ranked institutions have lower female ratios in full professorships in europe
https://www.women-economics.com/download/Auriol.Friebel.Wilhelm_2019_Women.in.Economics.pdf
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/05/friday-assorted-links-212.html
discrimination (suggest reforming hiring practices to increase gender equality)
96
6/1/2019Gay stereotyping deracializes somewhat.nnNA minority sexual orientation can alter the racial characteristics ascribed to men, reducing the perceived presence of race-typical traits
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103118304876
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/06/saturday-assorted-links-213.html
journal of experimental social psychology
97
6/1/2019Was Scandinavian gender equality also high in Viking times?yyNanswer to title q: yes
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1570677X1830251X
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/06/saturday-assorted-links-213.html
economics and human biology
maybe L bc implies persistence of gender inequality
98
6/2/2019“Overall, our findings on tax-rate and tax-base avoidance of U.S. multinational and domestic firms explain the recent evidence that effective tax rates of domestic firms are at least as low as effective tax rates of multinational firm.”nnNall kinds of firms dodge taxes...
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3374548
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/06/sunday-assorted-links-216.html
ssrn
exposes tax avoidance practices of domestic and multinational firms
99
6/4/2019New learning on the Greek great depression — floating rates may not have helped much for very long.nnNLower external demand for traded goods and contractionary fiscal policies account for the largest fraction of the Greek depression
https://www.nber.org/papers/w25900#fromrss
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/06/tuesday-assorted-links-215.html
nber
100
6/4/2019Further evidence for the view that air pollution is really, really badnnLenvironmental policies significantly affect damages and EVA growth
https://www.nber.org/papers/w25910#fromrss
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/06/tuesday-assorted-links-215.html
nberpro-enviro regulation