Richard Florida on Choi, Green and Noh

He writes about what we write about on education, migration and rent.

It’s abundantly clear that in today’s economy, the ability to attract and mobilize highly educated people—so-called human capital—is the key factor in the the wealth of nations as well of that of cities. But the driving force of talent in economic growth also contributes to our worsening divides. While metropolitan areas with more educated people have higher levels of income, they also have higher housing costs. And the burden of those costs falls hardest on the less educated.
A working paper by urban economist Richard Green, of the University of Southern California, and Jung Choi, of the Urban Institute takes, a deep dive into this conundrum....

Ten things data have taught me about the world.

(1) Tax cuts do not magically create growth; 

(2) Vaccines are among the best things we have ever invented; 

(3) raising the minimum wage to a point improves living standards for low wage workers (and that point may be somewhere between $11 and $15 per hour), beyond that point, it lowers living standards for low wage workers; 

(4) GMOs are fine; 

(5) the benefits of the Clean Air Act swamp the costs by an order of magnitude or more; 

(6) the mortgage interest deduction has a vanishingly small impact on the homeownership rate; 

(7) trade has raised living standards for hundreds of millions around the world; 

(8) trade has reduced living standards for low skilled workers in the US; 

(9) rent control reduces the stock of rental housing; 

(10) even though I like Lebron better than Jordan, MJ was the better player.