ECONOMY
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The class gap in academic career progression
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . July 13, 2024
There is a new and excellent paper by Anna Stansbury and Kyra Rodriguez on this topic: Unlike gender or race, class is rarely a focus
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Alice Evans on female labor force participation and appreciation of female talent
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . July 10, 2024
Abhay Aneja and colleagues reveal that daughters of civil servants who were more exposed to female co-workers during WWI were significantly more likely to work. For each standard
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Saturday assorted links
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . July 7, 2024
1. Do AI compansions reduce loneliness? 2. Inflation rates across the income distribution. 3. Was the Antikythera mechanism a kind of lunar calendar? (NYT) 4.
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Finland knows how to troll MR commentators
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . July 4, 2024
Perhaps that is why I like the country so much: Ideally, Marianne Korkalainen’s high school in Rautavaara, a tiny town in eastern Finland, would enroll
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Sunday assorted links
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . July 1, 2024
1. Newswire data set from Melissa Dell. 2. “At the nuances level, low LS [life satisfaction] was most strongly associated with feeling misunderstood, unexcited, indecisive,
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The Turku food hall – Marginal REVOLUTION
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . June 28, 2024
This is perhaps my favorite food hall. Dating from 1896, the basic building is notable, the displays are lovely and suitably Nordic, and for lunch
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AI trends relative to AI predictions
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . June 25, 2024
In 2021, researchers were asked how smart AI would be in 2022. They predicted 12% pass-rate on the MATH dataset; AI outperformed significantly, scoring 50%.
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Friday assorted links
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . June 22, 2024
1. WSJ profile of David Autor. 2. By Dean Ball, a simple public choice theory of what will go wrong with SB 1047. I genuinely
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Analyzing my text messages with my ex-boyfriend
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . June 19, 2024
With sentiment analysis over time, messages containing the word “sorry, and more. Trends! There is also a graph on how often “marginalized identity” was discussed,
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*The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned*
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . June 16, 2024
By John Strausbaugh, an excellent book. Here is one good passage of many: Putting dogs on top of rockets was nothing new. Since so little