I’m lucky enough to be flicking through the latest Review of Economics and Statistics so I thought I might sum up a couple of interesting tidbits while I’m reading:
Category Archive: Econometrics
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Apr
03
2009
This proof’s a lemon
I couldn’t resist posting this chart linked byMegan McArdle. It is just SO appropriate given Matt’s recent post. If using graphs like this counted as proving a scientific fact then the world would be a whole lot easier to explain
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Mar
07
2009
Homecoming Queen still on top
For all the nerds and geeks who cursed the popular people at high school but comforted themselves with the thought that future success would be theirs… Steven Levitt has bad news: …each extra close friend in high school is associated with earnings that are 2 percent higher later in life after controlling for other factors. …
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Nov
30
2008
Real income, poverty, and a tiered CPI
According to a recent book by Christian Broda and David E. Weinstein (Prices, Poverty, and Inequality: Why Americans are Better Off Than You Think) (ht Marginal Revolution) growth in income inequality was less pronounced in the US because of changes to the quality and cost of goods that “poor” people purchased. This indicates to me …
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Feb
07
2008
The truth about happiness
Vox report a recent study on adaptation to life-changing events. I don’t want to venture into a discussison of happiness research — a topic fraught with controversy — but the results are always fun to read! Apparently marriage really isn’t all that exciting and most people get progressively less happy as it drags on. Unsurprisingly, …
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Oct
13
2007
Economists tackle ‘the surge’
Economists like to claim that their discipline is about providing tools for analysis, not answers to ready-made problems. OK, so they’re hardly alone in that but Dani Rodrik links an interesting paper by Michael Greenstone that walks the walk. Greenstone …shows how data from world financial markets can be used to shed light on the …
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