ECONOMY

Is broadband good for you?

Kathryn R. Johnson and Claudia Persico have a new NBER working paper on exactly that topic: Between 2000 and 2008,…

2 years ago

What to think of Luka?

I am receiving inquiries as to whether I have upgraded my view of Luka, as his last series against Minnesota…

2 years ago

Those circularity-inducing service sector jobs

Yes, in Tokyo women pay men in make-up to flatter them.  But what does the whole market look like? Yamada…

2 years ago

Okie-dokie, canonized teen blogger edition

An early-aughts blog is probably not where you’d expect to find the next Mother Teresa, but that is where Carlo…

2 years ago

How important is “the scientific method”?

From a recently published paper by Alexander Krauss: Using data on all major discoveries across science including all Nobel Prize…

2 years ago