Ed Glaeser Argues Against Food Stamps
…and creates perverse incentives to earn less and save little,” he writes. “The problem with food stamps isn’t that we are giving too much to the poor.” (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
…and creates perverse incentives to earn less and save little,” he writes. “The problem with food stamps isn’t that we are giving too much to the poor.” (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
…in shadow economy activities,” says Friedrich Schneider, an economics professor at Johannes Kepler University in Austria. Opponents cite concerns over credit card transaction fees, privacy, and cybercrimes. (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
…to be helpful to the public at large, so one part of our Kickstarter campaign is to ask people: which interventions would you like to see featured?” (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
…the emergence of so-called wellbeing indexes as a positive development; and he suggests replacing our focus on GDP with an emphasis on the development of human capital. (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
…noting that this research predates the Tea Party movement; it will be interesting to see if their findings on blogs as “platforms for mobilization” still hold true. (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
…more natural light into poker machine areas and bans on food and drink in all gaming areas.” Freakonomics readers, what do you think? Will these nudges work? (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
…standard powers (like my drugstore readers, but for myopia as well),” writes Postrel. “The authors find that recycled glasses cost nearly twice as much per usable pair.” (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
…and the director of the school’s Center for Educational Testing Evaluation. “It’s important that the research community improve perhaps as quickly as the cheating community is improving.” (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
…joined-up writing,” said the notice published on Monday in the official gazette. If Brazil is bribing its prisoners to do schoolwork, can bribing students be far behind? (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
…saw a sled. Amazingly, she had completed only 220 runs before qualifying. (A typical US skeleton racer makes upwards of 2,000 runs before appearing in the Olympics.) (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
…question that economists do tend to pose. It also reminded me of a recent Marginal Revolution blog post that mentioned John Broome‘s new book, Climate Matters: Ethics in a Warming…
…that used to exist for the whole country is still true if you focus just on the areas that haven’t had as large an increase in regulation.” (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
…few markets initially, will have to compete with Amazon-forced marketplace change. Doctor also considers the implications of the move for Google, cityscapes and shopping centers, and employment. (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
…rate. Together, the findings supported the notion that the discovery of penicillin decreased the cost of syphilis and thereby played an important role in shaping modern sexuality. (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
…wrong in thinking this is a big, big story? FWIW, we did another podcast about how hard it is to predict earthquakes. (HT: inter alia, Steven Merahn and Marginal Revolution)…
A Florida state task force on education has just released a recommendation to adjust tuition, by major. “Tuition would be lower for students pursuing degrees most needed for Florida’s job…
…paywall bolstered their support, while explanations emphasizing financial stability did not. The authors conclude that “content providers could benefit from more thorough attempts to justify price structures.” (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
…a problem for the middle-class parents, who worked hard to pay the college costs, used up their retirement funds and are out of money by graduation time.” (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
…than $1 billion in net assets for the first time, counting cash, property, investments and other holdings. That is 10 times what the school had in 2006.” (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
…to think this is a real test of witchcraft. The tribal judges, who are pawns of the Mwami, are bribed to hand out false verdicts,” he says. (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
…had positive impacts on nutrition, education, land, and livestock — and haven’t increased alcohol consumption. The charity is also No. 2 on Givewell’s list of recommended charities. (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
…not for inmates. Students and inmates behave identically as second movers. Hence, we find a similar and significant fraction of inmates and students to hold social preferences. (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
…to put an advertisement, as this is what guys are eager to look at and girls are eager to expose,” Hidenori Atsumi, the agency’s CEO, told ITN. (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
…continue to decline in cost and both the number and assumed utility of open-source designs continues growing exponentially, open-source 3-D printers will become a mass-market mechatronic device. (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
…black-market drug prices. How techies process census data. Chess champions: skill or luck? (HT: Marginal Revolution) Pokerbot: a poker robot that plays Texas Hold ‘Em trains itself to play aggressively….
…legitimate Somali importers willing to use a financier’s foreign money to pay for their shipments and reimburse him at home in cash once the goods are sold. (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
…at Marginal Revolution: Using a variety of techniques and data we estimate that a 1% increase in the household gun ownership rate leads to a .5 to .9% increase in…
…results indicate that religious practices can affect labor supply choices in ways that have negative implications for economic performance, but that nevertheless increase subjective well-being among followers. (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
…but after chatting to her decided he could not do it,” writes Townsend. “The judge in Wright’s trial described him as a ‘hitman who lost his nerve’.” (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
…Okay, that’s all well and good, but if parents really want to show their gun bona fides, how about going all-out and naming your kid Colt .45? (HT: Marginal Revolution)…