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Friday, August 14, 2020

Cities as Economic Engines: Is Lower Density in our Future?

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 When studying urban economics, a common starting point is to make the obvious observation that economic activity does not have an even geog...
Thursday, August 13, 2020

Sounding an Alarm on Data Mining

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Back in 2013, someone going under the nom de plume of Economist Hulk wrote on Twitter (all caps, natch): "WHEN FACTS CHANGE, HULK SMASH...
Tuesday, August 11, 2020

The Rise of the US Social Insurance State

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One sometimes hears a reference to "the rise of the welfare state," but for the US in the 20th century, the pattern is more accura...
Monday, August 10, 2020

Randomness in the Location of Tech Clusters

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It seems as if every city wants to be the center of a tech cluster. When Amazon announced a couple of years back that it was taking bids fro...
Sunday, August 9, 2020

The Most Romantic Sentences Ever About Government Statistics?

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Arunabh Ghosh offers a candidate for the role of most romantic sentence ever about statistical tables. It's at the start of his article ...
Saturday, August 8, 2020

COVID: Perception and Numeracy

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Kekst CNC is a "communications strategy" firm that has been doing a series of public opinion polls about COVID-19. Their "COV...
Friday, August 7, 2020

When Colleges Went to Online Instruction: Some Patterns

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Almost all the US colleges and universities closed down their in-person operations and went to online education in March and April. But they...