link roundup

I moved countries last week, so this roundup has fewer Serious Policy Thoughts and more “things I read while sitting on my apartment floor while supervising movers”

• WIRED has a long read on ARIA and transformative science.

• Pro-growth economists agree: the UK’s biggest problem is its planning system.

• I should have linked to this when it came out, but my fellow Roots of Progress fellow wrote a very cool post on German YIMBYism.

• Surveys may underestimate the percentage of LGBTQ+ individuals in LMICs.

• Everyone has seen the identification strategy on this paper on the effects of divorce on children, but:

  • “To provide evidence whether this correlation is causal, we exploit idiosyncratic variation in the extent of gender balance in fathers’ workplaces. Fathers who encounter more women in their relevant age–occupation–group at work are more likely to divorce.”

• There are positive returns to education even for mobsters.

• Your papers are more likely to be accepted if you cite your peer reviewer.

• With the return of British Indian Ocean Territory to Mauritius, the sun will set on the British Empire sometime in 2025.

• Seke is a minority language in Nepal, with about 700 total speakers. 50 of them live in the same apartment building in Brooklyn.

• Ants have been farming for 66 million years.