I hate the Scientific American. One of the most unscientific magazines ever

The fact that the credibility of social science research has been decimated over the years is for very good reason.

Also, as you’d expect, divorce is actually very bad for kids (in both the long and short-term). But it’s not like you need a study to guess that

No economist thinks like this. Supply and demand is a popular idea of explaining real world markets. Just because basic empirical evidence suggests that leftist orthodoxy isn’t well-grounded doesn’t mean the poor should starve!

https://emlab.berkeley.edu/~obstfeld/e237_sp00/ohanian.pdf

Ohanian and Cole (2001) argue that well intentioned but badly designed government intervention on the parts of President Hoover and Roosevelt prolonged the Great Depression by about 7 years. It challenges 2 assumptions about the Depression, one is that the New Deal ended it, and the other is that President Hoover was “laissez-faire,” which he wasn’t.

https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/36853299/angel_onuoha_ec_970.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

This is an excellent student paper from Onuhua (2018) which critiques the study design of Fischer and Massey (2007). He finds that after controlling for multicollinearity (which essentially makes regression analyses less accurate), there is very strong evidence for a mismatch effect with affirmative action. And Massey’s AA studies don’t take into account initial major, which would dictate how easy or hard your class are. There have been studies finding that AA students drop out of STEM to easier majors at much higher rates than other students, so the effects could be even larger than this paper finds

The fact that supposed historians like him are having a meltdown about a report that’s obviously going to have a partisan bias is hilarious

Imagine leaving office giving an 18-month amnesty to Venezuelans and dozens of pardons to black drug criminals but not even pardoning your supporters who’d die for you

I mean we know who’s behind it all, but it’s still extremely disappointing

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-revocation-executive-order-13770/

This revokes the 5 year lobbying ban Trump instated on all employees leaving the White House

ILLEGITIMATE PRESIDENT

DLive is now down to 2 stars on the App Store. Keep those ratings coming! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dlive-live-stream-community/id1446969385

I think the Biden admin’s first action as president was to ask for pronouns in the White House contact form lmfao

Pages et al (2020) find that the Head Start program - a Federally funded preschool initiative - actually has negative impacts on students when combining newer cohorts of students not added into samples of older Head Start studies. The reason for this is unclear, but suggests that the program may just be a waste of money.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.01954.pdf

In response to Borjas (2020), who finds large income (and therefore racial) disparities in access to covid-19 testing in NYC, Schmitt-Grohè et al (2020) uses a different methodology to factor in income inequality. Their results indicate there are no disparities in access to testing, undermining a common Biden talking point. However, like Borjas, they find large disparities in the chance a test comes back positive, as poor residents are much more likely to have a positive test.

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w27019/w27019.pdf

They don’t explain why this is, but the fact that I see large groups of black males outside fast food chains when I go to Manhattan may have something to do with it