Archive for November 2013

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While the NY Times doesn't report any NBA news today, it is filled with other interesting stuff. 1. The local externality imposed by ...

Catherine Rampell has written an excellent piece about how we allocate our scarce time. Note that neither the word "city" nor &q...

I was in a West Los Angeles parking lot next to where my son takes fencing lessons. While I agree that this is not a location chosen at ran...

A psychologist reports that those who smiled in their College yearbook photo were much less likely to subsequently divorce than those serio...

In joint research, I have just released a new NBER Working Paper that examines the causes and consequences of shifts in the economic geogra...

In September 2013, I visited the National University of Singapore and had the opportunity to work with two economists at their I nstitute of...

Back in the mid-1980s, I attended Hamilton College. I would take the Amtrak train from Westchester to Utica and as the train traveled North ...

This article is worth reading. For decades, France has ignored Milton Friedman's logic and has heavily taxed its economy to provide f...

The New Yorker Magazine tells an optimistic story about how "Big Data" will help farmers cope with climate change and climate r...

While Google doesn't have it recorded, roughly 15 years ago, Ed Glaeser, Jordan Rappaport and I wrote a paper titled "Redistribut...

I've been a professor for 20 years now so I'm seldom surprised by what goes on in the classroom. Today was funny. If you click h...

I received word this weekend that the Houston apartment complex is up for sale. In fact, we already have two offers for it. Unfortunately, I...

The NY Times has a lead article saying that the IPCC says that climate change will reduce the food supply during a time of global populati...