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Daily Archive for April 23rd, 2012

We’re Doomed:Episode 48477619

Posted in ethical foundations on Apr 23rd, 2012

Via Alex Tabarrok: Wow, no one saw this coming.  The University of Florida announced this past week that it was dropping its computer science department, which will allow it to save about $1.7 million.  The school is eliminating all funding for teaching assistants in computer science, cutting the graduate and research programs entirely, and moving the tattered […]

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Health Data I Would Like to See

Posted in Health Care, Methodology on Apr 23rd, 2012

In labor economics we measure something called the poverty gap. Why do we do this? Because looking at the poverty rate as a measure of poverty tells an incomplete picture of the question we are worried about. For example if I show you two countries, call them Cowistan and Bullistan and in each of then […]

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