I’m pretty sure everyone has seen the new Azoulay et al paper about what would have happened had the NIH had been 40% smaller, but also: it’s very good.
- is, of course, self-recommending;1 he has a great post on the World Bank as degrowthers.
On a related note,
argues that consumer solar is good - but what African countries need more is reliable grid-scale solar.- has a literature review on the size of the motherhood wage penalty.
When people think undocumented immigrants make economic contributions, they feel more positively about them. On that note, may I recommend 3,000 words on the fiscal contributions of undocumented migrants in the US?
For my progress studies people, the rise and fall of rationality:
“After the year 1850, the use of sentiment-laden words in Google Books declined systematically, while the use of words associated with fact-based argumentation rose steadily. This pattern reversed in the 1980s, and this change accelerated around 2007, when across languages, the frequency of fact-related words dropped while emotion-laden language surged, a trend paralleled by a shift from collectivistic to individualistic language.”
Here is a post of 43 things the author loves in London. I endorse many of these: getting the front seat on a double-checker bus, Choosing Keeping, Gay’s the Word, the Hunterian collection…
You can do IVF for free in Russia… if you use the founder of Telegram’s sperm.
I’m very proud that my largest reader overlap is with Ken Opalo’s Substack.