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+ Annie Lowrey on Kamala Harris' proposed LIFT The Middle Class Act. Link. And link to a post from our colleagues at the Economic Security Project, some of whose Working Families Tax Credit made its way into the proposed legislation.
+ Last month, Chicago announced the Resilient Families Task Force, which is "charged with further modernizing and expanding access to the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), exploring a potential pilot of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) or other guaranteed income programs, and recommending other opportunities to reduce poverty and reduce financial burdens on low-income residents." Link. JFI's UBI team was honored to present to the task force earlier this week about pilot design. (See here for the Onion's incisive take.)
+ The first analysis of pre-registered studies shows a sharp rise in null findings. Link.
+ From The Century Foundation: an issue brief on higher education funding and community colleges. Link.
+ From 2013, an interesting post on Shinichi Mochizuki’s controversial ABC Conjecture papers, and the social dimensions of mathematical proofs: “A proof in a vacuum is no proof at all.” Link. (Link, also, to some news from this year in the ongoing debates over Mochizuki’s proof.)
+ "The diffusion of salary information has important implications for labor markets, such as for wage discrimination policies and collective bargaining. We provide evidence of significant frictions in how employees search for and share salary information and suggestive evidence that these frictions are due to privacy norms." Link.
+ "The New Class Blindness" by Cary Franklin in the Yale Law Journal. Link.
+ In a post at Effective Altruism, Amanda Askell discusses the moral value of information. Link.
+ On the mortality crisis in the post-89 transition to market economies in eastern Europe. Link.
+ New from Dani Rodrik: “Global value chains and new technologies exhibit features that limit the upside and may even undermine developing countries’ economic performance." Link.
+ "Our research analyzes the gradual extensions of suffrage to various segments of the population over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in 18 countries… [and] provides empirical evidence that extending suffrage to broader segments of the population hampers the development of stock markets. In contrast, broadening suffrage is conducive to banking sector development." Link.
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