ECONOMY

Is Indian food the world’s best?

From my latest Bloomberg column: Why is the food so good? I have several overlapping hypotheses, most of them coming…

3 days ago

The class gap in academic career progression

There is a new and excellent paper by Anna Stansbury and Kyra Rodriguez on this topic: Unlike gender or race,…

5 months ago

Alice Evans on female labor force participation and appreciation of female talent

Abhay Aneja and colleagues reveal that daughters of civil servants who were more exposed to female co-workers during WWI were significantly more likely…

5 months ago

Saturday assorted links

1. Do AI compansions reduce loneliness? 2. Inflation rates across the income distribution. 3. Was the Antikythera mechanism a kind…

6 months ago

Finland knows how to troll MR commentators

Perhaps that is why I like the country so much: Ideally, Marianne Korkalainen’s high school in Rautavaara, a tiny town…

6 months ago

Sunday assorted links

1. Newswire data set from Melissa Dell. 2. “At the nuances level, low LS [life satisfaction] was most strongly associated…

6 months ago

The Turku food hall – Marginal REVOLUTION

This is perhaps my favorite food hall.  Dating from 1896, the basic building is notable, the displays are lovely and…

6 months ago

AI trends relative to AI predictions

In 2021, researchers were asked how smart AI would be in 2022. They predicted 12% pass-rate on the MATH dataset;…

6 months ago

Friday assorted links

1. WSJ profile of David Autor. 2. By Dean Ball, a simple public choice theory of what will go wrong…

6 months ago

Analyzing my text messages with my ex-boyfriend

With sentiment analysis over time, messages containing the word “sorry, and more.  Trends!  There is also a graph on how…

6 months ago