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+ JFI is launching a new seminar on social mobility and opportunity gaps: "A growing body of research has shown that segregation, access to housing, transportation, family formation, schools, and jobs have all been shown to have a correlation with upward mobility; one’s zip code has been shown to have the biggest impact on social and economic mobility. Participants, along with our invited speakers, will explore public and private policies, practices and norms that can foster greater social mobility." Link to further information and registration instructions.
+ Rethinking infrastructure in an era of unprecedented weather events. Link.
+ A report from IPUMS highlights research concerns stemming from the Census Bureau's September announcement to implement differential privacy standards in its research. Researchers could "lose the free access they have enjoyed for six decades to reliable public Census Bureau data...[T]he differential privacy approach is inconsistent with the statutory obligations, history, and core mission of the Census Bureau." Link.
+ A blog post by San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo outlines municipal tax structures in a transparent discussion of what the city can expect from Google's new campus there. Link.
+ A new paper asks whether informing students on the benefits of higher education, its costs, and possible funding options increases student applications. Among the findings: "Our results indicate that a low-cost information intervention is an efficient tool to encourage students to translate their college intentions into actual enrollment." Link.
+ At People's Policy Project, Matt Bruenig details different types of welfare benefits: "flat, means-tested, trapezoid, and so on." Link.
+ A forthcoming paper examines intergenerational occupational mobility across three continents and finds that "higher mobility of 19th-century US relative to Britain might not have been a reflection of 'American exceptionalism', but rather a reflection of more widespread differences between settler economies of the New World and Europe." Link.
+ On online school ratings and their effects on economic and social segregation in America. Link.
+ An extraordinarily rich literature review on the economic history of Africa: "Starting from the colonial period, which has been linked to almost all of Africa's post-independence maladies, we first review works that uncover the lasting legacies of colonial investments in infrastructure and human capital and quantify the role of various extractive institutions, such as indirect rule and oppression associated with concessionary agreements. Second, we discuss the long-lasting impact of the 'Scramble for Africa' which led to ethnic partitioning and the creation of artificial modern states. Third, we cover studies on the multi-faceted legacy of the slave trades. Fourth, we analyze the contemporary role of various precolonial, ethnic-specific, institutional and social traits, such as political centralization." Link.
+ "Most firms have a high labor share, yet the aggregate labor share is low due to the disproportionate effect of a small fraction of large, extremely productive 'superstar firms.'" Link.
+ Metaresearch: using co-authorship networks to better refine rankings and funding instruments. Link.
+ The political economy of lobotomies. "In the late 1940s, the United States experienced a 'lobotomy boom' where the use of the lobotomy expanded exponentially. We engage in a comparative institutional analysis to explain why the lobotomy gained popularity despite widespread scientific consensus it was ineffective. Government provision and funding for public mental hospitals and asylums expanded and prolonged the use of the lobotomy." Link.
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