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Post-summer reading list: The Family, gender, race, economics, gayborhoods,...

A few things I read, almost read, or thought about reading, on vacation. Continue reading →

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On Contexts: Sociology unfound

Over on the Contexts blog, I wrote a follow-up to Justin Wolfers’ piece about economists dominating the news: here it is. Tagged: academia, economics, media, new york times, sociology

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Exceptions overwhelm the rules in economics

I wrote a short essay for the New York Times Room for Debate feature. The question was, “Have we given economists too much authority?” Here’s my answer, as edited by the Times. You can read the other...

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I knew that marriage-is-good-for-the-economy thing sounded familiar

Did you know that married couples with children spend 50-times more on childcare than single adults without children? Continue reading →

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I overspoke myself on Twitter

Possibly not the only time. A blog called Random Critical Analysis (RCA) has posted, “On Philip Cohen’s knee-jerk response to Chetty’s “causal mobility” data and its association with...

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Sociology: “I love you.” Economics: “I know.”

Economics, 41; Sociology, 6. Continue reading →

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Is the New York Times trapped in an economics echo chamber?

Ask a stupid question. When Justin Wolfers wrote about the dominance of economists in the pages of the New York Times, he concluded, “our popularity reflects the discerning tastes of our audience in...

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Get your dependency ratio off my lawn

Old people work more than they used to. This is important if you’re worried about what an aging population means for the economy. When they taught me demography, I learned about the dependency ratio,...

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’16 and Pregnant’ and less so

Is this a success story of working paper culture gone right -- driving attention to good work faster, and then also drawing the benefits of peer review through the traditional publication process?...

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Race/ethnicity and slacking at work

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