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Here's a story of unintended consequences, of academic theories and government policy gone wrong, of how damn hard it is to tackle organized crime, and of insights into what criminal
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In this time of preventable death, a sobering statistic I learned today. We are tracking a group of young men surveyed 10 years ago in Liberia. Mostly youth involved in
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it’s great that economists do lots of field work and interviews now. But think of the absolute sloppiest, terrible causal inference paper you can remember, from someone who doesn’t even
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Is the idea that, if the elderly/vulnerable can be vaccinated in the first months, that this eliminates the main argument for continued shutdowns/restrictions? Yes, some non-vulnerable can get very sick,
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A thread on @mmoralmo's amazing job market paper, one of the best crime/social policy papers I've seen.Suppose you're mayor. You learn that a program--maybe it's drug treatment, lighting, social services,
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