Must- and Should-Reads: September 26, 2017
- Danny Yagan: : Employment hysteresis from the great recession: “This paper uses U.S. local areas as a laboratory to test whether the Great Recession depressed 2015 employment… https://equitablegrowth.org/working-papers/employment-hysteresis-great-recession/
- Jessica Fulton: Income inequality and economic mobility remain defined largely by race and ethnicity in the United States/span>: “The Congressional Black Caucus held its Annual Legislative Conference… https://equitablegrowth.org/equitablog/value-added/income-inequality-and-economic-mobility-remain-defined-largely-by-race-and-ethnicity-in-the-united-states/
- Michael Jordan: On Computational Thinking, Inferential Thinking and Data Science: “The rapid growth in the size and scope of datasets in science and technology has created a need for novel foundational perspectives on data analysis that blend the inferential and computational sciences… https://bids.berkeley.edu/resources/videos/computational-thinking-inferential-thinking-and-data-science
- CBPP: Tax Reform Briefs: “Congress is expected to consider legislation to make major changes to the tax code this year. Here is a series of two-page explanations of key issues in tax reform… https://www.cbpp.org/tax-reform-briefs
- Robert C. Feenstra and Akira Sasaharab: The “China Shock”, Exports and U.S. Employment: A Global Input-Output Analysis: “We quantify the impact on U.S. employment from imports and exports during 1995-2011, using the World Input-Output Database… http://cid.econ.ucdavis.edu/Papers/Feenstra_Sasahara.pdf
- Rachel Gillett and Anaele Pelisson: 12 jobs robots are already taking over: “Talk to any futurist, and they’ll tell you that robots are coming for our jobs… http://www.businessinsider.fr/us/jobs-replaced-by-robots-2017-9/
- Kieran Healy (2015): America’s Ur-Choropleths: “Choropleth maps… showing various distributions geographically… make it easy to present a geographical distribution to insinuate an explanation… https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2015/06/12/americas-ur-choropleths/
- Noah Smith: The Racism of the Rust Belt: “Wow. This article about the Rust Belt is amazing… https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/911318880500408320
- Carmen Reinhart and Vincent Reinhart: The Fear Factor in Today’s Interest Rates: “The theory of “rare disaster risk” has progressed considerably in recent years, owing to the work of the Harvard economist Robert Barro… https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/north-korea-fear-drives-low-interest-rates-by-carmen-reinhart-and-vincent-reinhart-2017-09
- Alan Beattie: As they unwind QE, central banks must come clean about inflation: “The Fed has tightened policy and the BoE is now prefiguring a rise. Neither can point at serious signs of inflationary pressure… https://www.ft.com/content/a5dbddfa-9ebe-11e7-9a86-4d5a475ba4c5
- Blakeley B. McShane et al.: Abandon Statistical Significance: “The status quo is a lexicographic decision rule in which any result is first required to have a p-value that surpasses the 0.05 threshold… http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/unpublished/abandon.pdf
- Matt Yglesias: The staggering hypocrisy of Bill Cassidy and Lindsey GrahamVox: “Bill Cassidy… safe seat in Louisiana, could… have spent the past six months… https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/9/19/16330094/cassidy-graham-hypocrisy
Interesting Reads:
- Cathy O’Neil: My TED talk is live! https://mathbabe.org/2017/08/22/my-ted-talk-is-live/
- Dylan Scott: Graham-Cassidy now guts Obamacare even more: “Senate Republicans are desperately hunting for votes for repeal…” https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/9/25/16360550/graham-cassidy-revised-explained
- Charlie Warzel: Mark Zuckerberg Can’t Stop You From Reading This Because The Algorithms Have Already Won: “And the machines are running the asylum…” https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/mark-zuckerberg-cant-stop-you-from-reading-this-because-the
- Òscar Jordà, Moritz Schularick, and Alan M. Taylor et al.: JORDÀ-SCHULARICK-TAYLOR MACROHISTORY DATABASE http://www.macrohistory.net/data/#DownloadData | http://www.macrohistory.net/JST/JSTdocumentationR2.pdf | http://delong.typepad.com/data-table-1-1.csv | http://delong.typepad.com/variable-description-table-1.csv | http://delong.typepad.com/creative-commons-license-table-1.csv
- Economist: Psychology beats business training when it comes to entrepreneurship: “Among small-business owners in Togo, at least…” https://www.economist.com/news/business/21729454-among-small-business-owners-togo-least-psychology-beats-business-training-when-it-comes
- Andrew Gelman: Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science http://andrewgelman.com/
- American Medical Association, American Academy of Family Physicians, American Hospital Association, Federation of American Hospitals, America’s Health Insurance Plans, and the BlueCross BlueShield Association: Regarding the Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson legislation https://www.ahip.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Joint-statement-AMA-AAFP-AHA-FAH-AHIP-BCBSA-9.23.17.pdf
- Caroline Freund: We Need to Talk About How Female Economists Are Treated: “”If economists are mostly men, women’s economic concerns get overlooked…” https://www.teenvogue.com/story/we-need-to-talk-about-how-female-economists-are-treated
- Francis Wilkinson: Conservatives and the Rotten Smell of States’ Rights: “CThe roots of the Graham-Cassidy bill are deep and poisonous…” https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-09-23/conservatives-and-the-rotten-smell-of-states-rights
- What Is the Trump Administration’s U.S. Tax Cut Plan Likely to Look Like?: Not So Fresh at Project Syndicate http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/09/what-is-the-us-tax-cut-plan-likely-to-look-like-live-at-project-syndicate.html
- Monday DeLong Smackdown: Noah Smith: Free Speech on Campus http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/09/monday-delong-smackdown-noah-smith-free-speech-on-campus.html