ROSE:Putting aside police shootings, there’s ample evidence that the rest of encounters with police—so lower-level encounters where a police officer is frisking you, for example, or even using some more minor levels of force—there’s huge racial disparities in the ...
And this brings me to the third point, which I think is an underrated aspect in an otherwise excellent column:building effective state capacity at the local level.Devesh Kapur’s work, “Why Does the Indian State Both Fail and Succeed?”, highlights this long-standing issue. We talk a lot...
how things go from public policy, to the media, to the people, and how that goes back. Um. And it was a very difficult time for a lot of people to kind of understand that route, and it’s definitely led
For political reasons Trump had reduced the number of troops to 2500 by x-mas in spite of pleas from many generals. He had also signed what can only be described as surrender papers to the Taliban. Finally he had done nothing to get those Afghan friends back to US (less than 500 had ...
We study a market where innovators, who are good at coming up with ideas, can sell them to entrepreneurs, who might be better at implementing them. The market is decentralized, with random matching and bargaining. Ideas are characterized by five salient features: they are indivisible; partially...
The implied inflation rate from the simple breakeven calculation is the same as it was around 6/9/2021, for the last two and a half months. In part, the moderation in expected inflation over the past five months is due to an anticipated deceleration in growth, as implied by the term spr...
studies over voter enthusiasm. Turnout by early voters has been unprecedented and seems mostly be to be by Dems. Yes, maybe GOPsters will massively turn out on Election Day to overcome that, but Trump seems to be drawing out a whole lot of voters who did not vote in the past. ...
I guess you do not know that imports are only 15% of GDP. Hey Ed – what is 2% times 0.15? We’ll wait until you take your shoes off so you can count past 10. “it is as good a time as there is to attempt to reign in the abuses of China, as well correct the tariff imbal...
probability that a given loan defaults, where a default is defined as going 60 days-past-due or entering foreclosure at any point within 4 years of origination. In what follows a “good” account is one that does not default, whereas a “bad” account is one that does default. ...
Heck, the President was arguing for hydroxychloroquine use from a French clinical trial that had about 20 patients in it. We saw how that turned out. Does any one here trust data with so few responses? I’ve been reading lots of junk COVID-19 papers that suffer this same flaw. ...