US support for immigration is at a record high (79%).1
Labour is increasingly the party of Britain’s rich.
The creation of the modern mortgage increased birth rates - and probably led to ~3 million births in the US.
On somewhat the same note,
has a great longread on how the UK became a society of owner-occupiers.
Political science research is underpowered.
Look, there’s a reason “can I see your power calcs” is my most asked question as a grantmaker.
When it is revealed that an economics paper fails to replicate, citations are… completely unaffected. Economics as a discipline does not seem to self-correct, even when there is clear evidence a paper is wrong.
For all transplant Discourse: domestic transplants are actually relatively rare in large US cities.
When people stay up to watch soccer, they’re more likely to get into fatal car crashes the next day. Stay safe; ignore sports.
The Great American Immigration Thermostat strikes again!
Baffling, tbh. As an adult, I have never lived in either the state of my birth or the state I grew up in.
From the first link: "The percentages who volunteer that the effects are "mixed" or who do not have an opinion are not shown." I imagine this could be quite a high proportion of people, so the true % of people who think it's a "Good thing" may actually be well below 79%.