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1 | Date | TC Link Text | Ends with ? | Link text = direct quote of title question | Slant (L/N/R) | summary | link to research | "assorted links" link | Outlet | comments | DS comments | ||||||||||||||||
2 | 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. | n | n | R | positive 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') | ||||||||||||||||||
3 | 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. | n | n | R | The rise of in-and-outs forms a different picture of declinging labor supply than the common view of men permanently withdrawn from the LF |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?) | |||||||||||||||||
4 | 1/4/2019 | “…we find no evidence that mothers’ education reduces their support for FGC.” | n | n | N | education 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
5 | 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.” | n | n | L | internet 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 | aea | discrimination | |||||||||||||||||
6 | 1/5/2019 | Does market concentration in homebuilding matter? | y | n | L | increase 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 | |||||||||||||||||
7 | 1/10/2019 | Are selling decisions less rational than buying decisions? | y | n | N | investors 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? | |||||||||||||||||
8 | 1/12/2019 | Do celebrity governors even matter? | y | n | N | Jesse 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
9 | 1/15/2019 | Many attitudes are becoming more neutral, except toward the overweight. | n | n | R | attitudes 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 | |||||||||||||||||
10 | 1/16/2019 | Folklore. And Does scientific progress affect culture? | n | n | L | Darwin'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) | |||||||||||||||||
11 | 1/30/2019 | How color palettes affect painting prices. | n | n | N | paintings 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
12 | 1/31/2019 | The 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. | n | n | N | deactivating 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
13 | 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).” | n | n | N | language 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
14 | 2/1/2019 | Loss aversion in professional golf | n | n | N | loss 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
15 | 2/1/2019 | Women in economics, from Journal of Economic Perspectives, here, here, and here. | n | n | L | low 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? | ||||||||||||||||
16 | 2/1/2019 | Women in economics, from Journal of Economic Perspectives, here, here, and here. | n | n | L | there 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 | |||||||||||||||||
17 | 2/1/2019 | Women in economics, from Journal of Economic Perspectives, here, here, and here. | n | n | L | targeted 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 | |||||||||||||||||
18 | 2/2/2019 | Are female presidents less popular? | y | n | L | female 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 | |||||||||||||||||
19 | 2/3/2019 | Most financial anomalies don’t replicate. | n | n | R | most 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 | |||||||||||||||||
20 | 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.” | n | n | L | the 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) | |||||||||||||||||
21 | 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.” | n | n | N | aging 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
22 | 2/10/2019 | Do the effects of British colonialism wear off? | y | n | N | british 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
23 | 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…” | n | n | L | trends 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 | ||||||||||||||||
24 | 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…” | n | n | L | attitudes 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?) | |||||||||||||||||
25 | 2/11/2019 | Alzheimer’s and portfolio decisions. | n | n | N | genetic 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
26 | 2/11/2019 | Intergenerational mobility in africa | n | n | L | 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) | |||||||||||||||||
27 | 2/17/2019 | India’s counterforce temptations with Pakistan (very important reading right now). | n | n | N | India 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 | |||||||||||||||||
28 | 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. | n | n | N | the 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 | ssrn | unclear? | |||||||||||||||||
29 | 2/18/2019 | Only male movie stars matter for box office. | n | n | R | male 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 | ||||||||||||||||
30 | 2/21/2019 | Venting as epistemic work | n | n | N | if 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
31 | 2/24/2019 | “Association analysis in over 329,000 individuals identifies 116 independent variants influencing neuroticism.“ | n | n | N | finds 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
32 | 2/25/2019 | The problem is that children do not make Europeans happy. | n | n | N | family 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
33 | 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. | n | n | N | people 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
34 | 3/4/2019 | The rising returns to genius. | n | n | R | innovation 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 | ||||||||||||||||
35 | 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.” | n | n | R | conservatives 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
36 | 3/5/2019 | “…unfunded pension benefits grow faster under Democratic-party mayors.” | n | n | R | unfunded pensions are presumably bad! | https://www.nber.org/papers/w25601#fromrss | https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/03/tuesday-assorted-links-202.html | nber | anti-Dem | |||||||||||||||||
37 | 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.“ | n | n | N | the 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
38 | 3/12/2019 | The deadweight loss of social recognition. | n | n | N | social 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
39 | 3/14/2019 | East germans cheat more | n | n | R | East 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 | |||||||||||||||||
40 | 3/16/2019 | Slot restrictions raise air fairs | n | n | R | slot 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 | |||||||||||||||||
41 | 3/17/2019 | Was Irish migration negative selection? | y | n | N | sons 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
42 | 3/19/2019 | Minimum wage hikes increase property crime. | n | n | R | min wage increases crime | https://www.nber.org/papers/w25647#fromrss | https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/03/tuesday-assorted-links-204.html | nber | anti min wage | |||||||||||||||||
43 | 3/19/2019 | Your memory influences the rent you end up with. | n | n | N | reference 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
44 | 3/20/2019 | The wisdom of polarized crowds? | y | n | N | polarized 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 | |||||||||||||||||
45 | 3/23/2019 | Psychopathy by individual state, D.C. a champ. How is New Jersey only number nine? | n | n | N | measures 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 | |||||||||||||||||
46 | 3/26/2019 | A new paper on automation that actually has some new and interesting results. | n | n | L | recent 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'!) | |||||||||||||||||
47 | 3/27/2019 | New paper on labor market power | n | n | L | welfare 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
48 | 3/30/2019 | “CEOs imbue organizations with feelings, increasing punishment satisfaction and apology effectiveness.“ | n | n | N | people 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 | |||||||||||||||||
49 | 4/1/2019 | Do liberals and conservatives share the same harm-based moral template? | y | n | N | past 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
50 | 4/4/2019 | How Southern white wealth recovered after the Civil War. | n | n | L | sons 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 | |||||||||||||||||
51 | 4/5/2019 | Did pharma drug stocks know Trump was going to win? | y | n | R | some 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 | |||||||||||||||||
52 | 4/5/2019 | Homes exposed to sea level rise (SLR) sell for approximately 7% less than observably equivalent unexposed properties equidistant from the beach. | n | n | L | Homes 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
53 | 4/6/2019 | The productivity slowdown was transatlantic | n | n | N | productivity 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
54 | 4/7/2019 | The economic burden of Mexican crime. | n | n | R | there 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?) | |||||||||||||||||
55 | 4/8/2019 | Did Jiangsu province jump-start Chinese economic growth, pre-1979? | y | n | L | For 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.") | |||||||||||||||||
56 | 4/9/2019 | Will space colonization be fully automated? | y | n | N | space 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
57 | 4/13/2019 | “Rapidly declining remarkability of temperature anomalies may obscure public perception of climate change.” | n | n | L | declining 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?) | |||||||||||||||||
58 | 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. | y | n | L | 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) | |||||||||||||||||
59 | 4/16/2019 | “…measured productivity responds directly to competition.” | n | n | R | productivity 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?) | |||||||||||||||||
60 | 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.” | n | n | N | local 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
61 | 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.” | n | n | R | influxes 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 | |||||||||||||||||
62 | 4/23/2019 | “…globalization, through enhanced capital mobility and high-skill emigration diminishes the generosity of the welfare state.” | n | n | R | financial 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 | |||||||||||||||||
63 | 4/23/2019 | Verifying identity as a social intersection. | n | n | N | provide 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
64 | 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.“ | n | n | N | political 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
65 | 4/26/2019 | Does information overload invalidate efficient markets? | y | n | L | when 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 | 4/26/2019 | Do minorities pay more for mortgages? | y | y | R | there 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 | ssrn | no discrimination | |||||||||||||||||
67 | 4/29/2019 | Predicting high-risk opioid prescriptions before they are given. | n | n | N | risk 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. | n | n | N | cross-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.” | n | n | R | self 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.” | n | n | L | present 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 | 5/3/2019 | Lighthouse provision in premodern Japan | n | n | N | most 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. | n | n | N | link 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 | 5/6/2019 | Street lighting reduces crime | n | n | N | pretty 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.” | n | n | L | higher 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 | 5/6/2019 | The benefits of debt forgiveness for students | n | n | L | benefits 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 | 5/7/2019 | Can good charter schools be replicated? | y | y | R | replication 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 | 5/8/2019 | Who pays for the minimum wage? | y | y | R | min 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 | AER | anti-min wage | |||||||||||||||||
78 | 5/10/2019 | The number of roles in theatre has decreased over time. | n | n | N | economics 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 | 5/11/2019 | Speculative: “These findings provide preliminary evidence that a propensity to exhibit the sunk cost bias may be an important feature associated with cannabis use.” | y | n | R | propensity 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 | 5/13/2019 | Multinational offshoring was behind much of employment deindustrialization. | n | n | L | offshoring 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 | nber | anti-offshoring | |||||||||||||||||
81 | 5/13/2019 | Pay transparency in Canada led to lower academic salaries. And a smaller gender gap in salaries | n | n | L | pay 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.” | n | n | N | positive 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 | 5/17/2019 | WalkAway: Observational Data on 150 Erstwhile Democrats. | n | n | R | individuals 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 | 5/17/2019 | Yonatan 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. | n | n | R | lower 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 | 5/18/2019 | The other Nordic paradox (violence against women) | n | n | R | finds 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 | plos | costs 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?” | n | n | N | covert 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 | 5/19/2019 | Less social discounting from autistics | n | n | N | having 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. | n | n | N | repeal 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 | 5/21/2019 | Does price-fixing benefit corporate managers? | y | y | L | managers 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 | 5/25/2019 | Online reputations become inflated over time | n | n | N | online 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 | 5/27/2019 | Chinese robots and chinese wages | n | n | L | robot 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 | 5/29/2019 | Mobile phones lowered murder rates | n | n | N | expansion 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 | 5/29/2019 | Is the start-up deficit mainly the result of demographics? | y | n | N | declining 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 | 5/30/2019 | Thank you calls do not seem to boost charitable giving. | n | n | N | thank 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 | 5/31/2019 | Women in European economics. | n | n | L | higher 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 | 6/1/2019 | Gay stereotyping deracializes somewhat. | n | n | N | A 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 | 6/1/2019 | Was Scandinavian gender equality also high in Viking times? | y | y | N | answer 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.” | n | n | N | all 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 | 6/4/2019 | New learning on the Greek great depression — floating rates may not have helped much for very long. | n | n | N | Lower 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 | 6/4/2019 | Further evidence for the view that air pollution is really, really bad | n | n | L | environmental 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 | nber | pro-enviro regulation |