Recognition stimulates productivity: no surprises there!
Does The John Bates Clark Medal Boost Subsequent Productivity And Citation Success?, Ho Fai Chan, Bruno S. Frey, Jana Gallus, Benno Torgler Despite the social...
Internet journalism circa 1981
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Measurement in social science: hard, but worth it
A video and an essay all on the same subject: measurement in the social sciences. Summary: It's really worth doing and doing better, even though...
Ideas or interests?
It's an old debate with a nice Keynes quote routinely trotted out: The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when...
Wonkworld vs the Mediaverse
Facts are no match for a compelling narrative, says Jonathan Green. Despite the efforts of left leaning bloggers, conservatives are winning arguments and elections because...
Barriers to entry: not all bad
When I first joined the mortgage broking industry I was struck by all the calls the industry itself made for regulation. Mostly this was not out of some...
Discrimination is a luxury
We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the occupation. To this end, we conduct a correspondence...