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Thursday, January 16, 2014

Is there no racial bias precisely because it seems like there is?

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Consider a criminal activity that is equally prevalent in two groups, but police arrest a larger share of group A than group B. Is this evid...
Friday, March 8, 2013

Cannabis, IQ and socio-economic status in the Dunedin data - an update

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I’ll start with a short recap: Researchers published article august 2012 arguing that adolescent-onset cannabis smoking harms adolescent br...
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Did pre-release harm the research process? And what is up with this cannabis and IQ research?

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Did pre-release of my PNAS paper ( here , but gated) on methodological problems with Meier et al’s 2012 paper on cannabis and IQ reduce the ...
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Economic models in theory and practice

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Michael Woodford has a nice essay at INET where he responds to John Kay’s plea for a changed economics . In it, Woodford presents a number ...
Monday, November 21, 2011

Hamermesh: Macro is rubbish, but the academic market is working and selecting for usefulness. It selected for Gary Becker, didn’t it?

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Labor economist Daniel Hamermesh is interviewed at the Browser and asked for five books showing that economics is fun. At one point, the f...
Friday, November 18, 2011

The invisible hand is everywhere… you just need to notice every little detail!

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In the book “Darwin’s Dangerous Idea” the philosopher Daniel C. Dennett called Darwin’s theory of evolution a form of “universal acid”: it...
Thursday, November 17, 2011

Rational models are NOT more constrained than irrational ones

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One more comment on the Raquel Fernández conversation at the Straddler that I mentioned in a previous post . I thought she had several good...
Wednesday, November 16, 2011

The “canonical model” and the importance of default models

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A Google+ post from Al Roth alerted me to an interesting conversation at The Straddler with Raquel Fernández. She has some great ways of m...
Friday, July 1, 2011

Have a nice summer!

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Had some posts I needed to get out on the Norwegian-language blog of a colleague regarding housing prices in Norway. As a result I never go...
Saturday, June 18, 2011

Should parenting and drugs affect economic theory?

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Would economic theory be different if economists were parents when initially taught it? Freakonomics-blogger Justin Wolfer says yes , becaus...
Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Tim Harford´s "Adapt" - a book review

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Tim Harford´s new book “Adapt” is a wonderful read but difficult to pigeonhole. There´s interesting stuff about the Iraq war, the finance cr...