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Saturday, April 8, 2017

Interview with Angus Deaton on Death Rates, Inequality, and More

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The Knowledge@Wharton website at the University of Pennsylvania has posted a 36-minute podcast interview with Angus Deaton, titled "Is...
Friday, April 7, 2017

Six Patterns Behind the US Productivity Slowdown

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A couple of recent reports review the evidence about the productivity slowdown. Gustavo Adler, Romain Duval, Davide Furceri, Sinem Kiliç Çel...
Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Leniency in Speeding Tickets: Bunching Evidence of Police Bias

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Imagine for a moment the distribution of speed for drivers who are breaking the speed limit. One would expect that a fairly large number of ...
Monday, April 3, 2017

A Stroll through US Trade Statistics, and How It Always Balances

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"America’s commerce with the rest of the world must be and always is balanced when taking into account investment flows as well as the ...
Thursday, March 30, 2017

How Between-Firm Inequality Drives Economic and Social Inequality

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"The real engine fueling rising income inequality is `firm inequality': In an increasingly winner-take-all or at least winner-take-...
Wednesday, March 29, 2017

“In Order That They Might Rest Their Arguments on Facts”

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There is considerable concern among economists and social scientists that the Trump administration will take a hatchet to the government sta...
Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Global Investment Spending: A Piece of the Puzzle

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One of the distressing issues for the US economy has been the slow pace of investment , which is probably part of what made the US economic ...