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Posted in Education on Aug 24th, 2015
From three All-Stars (Fryer, Levitt and List): This intervention had large and statistically significant positive impacts on both cognitive and non-cognitive test scores of Hispanics and Whites, but no impact on Blacks … Children with above median (pre-treatment) non cognitive scores accrue the most benefits from treatment. In other work, it seems that government R&D subsidies […]
Posted in Macroeconomics on Aug 24th, 2015
I don’t have a pony in this race aside from the fact that I don’t want to live through a Great Depression: If we do not act, and act soon, we are headed for another Great Depression. Yikes.
Posted in Corporatism, Government Gone Wild, Health Care on Aug 24th, 2015
One of the things that “anti-ACA” analysts worried about with the new law was that it would open the door to regulating all manner of areas of our lives that not even the staunchest supporters of the law ever intended or ever imagined it would lead to. Here is an episode confirming these concerns. After decades […]
