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Why Lifespans Are More Variable Among Blacks Than Among Whites in the United States   Glenn Firebaugh et al. Demography, December 2014,...

As far as I can tell, this is a near perfect description of empirical work in comparative politics. In honor of Scott de Marchi.

An email from Zach Weiner : Funny story I thought you might enjoy. Pretty typical kid story, I'm sure, but it was too perfect not to ...

Compensation Discrimination for Defensive Players: Applying Quantile Regression to the National Football League Market for Linebackers and...

The price of a drink – too exactly? Flawed evidence for minimum unit pricing  John Duffy  Significance, April 2013, Pages 23–27 The U...

"One common denominator of successful bike programs around the world — from Paris to Barcelona to Guangzhou — is that almost no one w...

Here is the money quote: "according  to  the  Bread  and  Peace  model  per  capita  real   income  growth  ...

There are a lot of things that drive me crazy about the current practice of econometrics. People who think over-identification tests validat...

Why are professors liberal? Neil Gross & Ethan Fosse Theory and Society, March 2012, Pages 127-168 Abstract: The political liberali...

This is one of the best stats teachable moments I think I have seen in a long time. An article was published , listing cancer rates of an ...

Benford's Law, applied to Greece. Thanks to the ward boss... Oh, and that's "Benford," not Binford.

Jackie Blue sends this outrage . Pavitt found hitting accounts for more than 45% of teams' winning records, fielding for 25% and pitchin...

People, I am not a programming genius by any stretch of the imagination. That said, I've done work with a variety of co-authors ( Mark ...

Interesting. Our boy LeBron points out that the way we count matters, and that "offshoring" may overcount the portion of value c...

All hail to the State, with Patriotism so great, that less than 20% of its residents even have passports! I was very proud to see that rough...

Fantastic article in the New Yorker about applying crime mapping and policing the "hot spots" to medical care. In a lot of situat...

Most tennis players have a huge speed differential between their first and second serves. They take more risk with the first serve, knowing ...

Leamer has a fantastic essay in the Spring 2010 Journal of Economic Perspectives ( ungated version here ) reacting to Angrist & Pishke...

Newish NBER working paper by Aghion, Howitt, & Murtin ( ungated version here ) is titled: "The Relationship Between Health and Grow...