Economic DeBLOGraphy

Here are some fun graphics I put on the final exam this year. One of the fundamental problems in social science inference is that we observe...

Based on little research and an extreme approach to risk management, the CDC now recommends " that women who are pregnant or might be p...

The Washington Post reports  how several recent articles find essentially no effect of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) on employment to ...

Last year, Vox posted a helpful summary of a paper on the protective effect of marriage  that utilized panel data in the PSID to help contro...

The Center for Migration Studies provides an online data visualizer that shows estimated characteristics of unauthorized immigrants, courte...

This spring, Data Science 8: Foundations of Data Science, returns to Cal in its second appearance since its debut this fall. And also I'...

The Times takes the long view  of economic growth, conflict, and sustainable development, and its pessimism is well summarized by the invoca...