Pierce and Schott (2017) examine the link between trade liberalization and “deaths of despair.” Trade liberalization is measured by loosened import competition in the 1990s, leading to massive dumps of Chinese exports into the U.S. and declines in manufacturing employment. They find that areas exposed to more trade liberalization experienced significant increases in deaths from alcohol, drugs, suicide, etc. This is only seen in white working males.

https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/2018/preliminary/paper/kesFZbin

Free trade kills

Washington Post: “The Good Guys are the Hedge Fund Billionaires and Short Sellers.”

Levitt (2004) looks at possible reasons why crime sharply fell in the 1990s. He finds that mass incarceration, the ebbing crack epidemic, increases in the police force and legalized abortion accounts for nearly all of the crime drop. However, mass incarceration explains a majority of the contribution, with the other three factors playing lesser roles. And on the abortion issue, Joyce (2004) says it is likely incorrect, but doesn’t examine the other factors.

https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1257/089533004773563485

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w8319/w8319.pdf

State IQ is highly negatively correlated to lethal force by police.

https://t.co/0TbAd04ekk?amp=1

It’s very unfortunate what happened to the SAT. It used to be a much better test

Kuncell and Sackett are 2 of the best psychologists studying standardized testing.

"The Biden administration is opening an overflow facility for unaccompanied migrant children apprehended at the US-Mexico border, the federal agency tasked with the children's care told CNN in a statement."

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/02/politics/migrant-children-facility-immigration/index.html

I looked up each author for this study and their twitter pages are exactly what you’d expect.

https://lernercenter.syr.edu/2020/08/04/rb-28/

Thank you to the real Republicans who stood with me today!

Every single one of you will be remembered.

Classic mob shakedown

https://www.google.com/amp/s/jonathanturley.org/2021/02/05/raskin-trumps-decision-not-to-testify-is-evidence-of-guilt/amp/

Just did an Instagram post on this thesis, hoping my comment section doesn’t explode

https://delong.typepad.com/pdf-1.pdf

Hoynes et al. (2005) looks at the stubbornly high poverty rate in America. They find that the significant rise of single-mother households since the 1970s explains almost all of the rigidity in the poverty rate, and anti-poverty programs explain almost none of it

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w11681/w11681.pdf

To test Spearman’s Hypothesis, which is that IQ differences between ethnic groups is due to how well a test measures general intelligence, Warne (2016) examines correlations between student Advanced Placement test scores (less of an intelligence measure) and PSAT scores (a strong intelligence measure). His findings are consistent with Spearman’s Hypothesis for white-latino and white-black differences. It’s inconsistent with white-Asian and inconclusive for white-native American

https://daneshyari.com/article/preview/929005.pdf

New article by Sean Last on Transgenderism

https://ideasanddata.wordpress.com/2021/02/07/on-transgenderism/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

A city-funded study in Chicago found that bail abolition didn’t lead to an increase in crime. Cassell and Fowkes (2020) reanalyzed the data and found that bail abolition significantly increased crime. Total crimes and violent crimes went up by 45% and 33% respectively among pretrial defendants released. Turns out that releasing criminals from prison isn’t a good idea (I know, shocker).

https://dc.law.utah.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1189&context=scholarship