Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Is Houston really vulnerable to recession? {Updated answer: maybe}

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So after reading Paul Krugman's prediction that Texas was vulnerable , I did two things I should have done before. First, I looked to...
Monday, December 29, 2014

The limits of knowledge in economics, Part V

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How much does it cost you to live in your house?  If you are a renter, the answer to that question is fairly straightforward (although if y...
Saturday, December 27, 2014

Is Houston really vulnerable to recession?

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My inbox is filling up with dire warnings about the near-term future of Houston's economy.  After all, the price of oil has dropped by ...
Friday, December 26, 2014

The limits of knowledge in economics: Part IV

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The workhorse model of international trade is the  Heckscher-Ohlin Model.  It is essentially the model that formalizes the Ricardian model...
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Wednesday, December 24, 2014

The limits of knowledge in economics, Part III.

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Economists think a lot about preferences, and are more interested in what people do, instead of what people say they will do. When people m...
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Tuesday, December 23, 2014

The limits of knowledge in economics, Part II

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Everyone--and I mean everyone--who does empirical analysis should read Charles Manski's Identification Problems in the Social Sciences ...
Monday, December 22, 2014

The limits of knowledge in economics, Part I.

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I rather like this paragraph from Ed Leamer's Journal of Economic Perspectives piece on the utility and limits of econometrics: Fin...
Thursday, December 04, 2014

If you think we're post-racial, read the lead article from the November 2014 American Economic Review

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Alesina and La Ferrara conclude: This paper proposes a test for racial bias in capital sentencing in the US over the period 1973-1995. W...
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Tuesday, November 04, 2014

Jung Hyun Choi and I write about Income Inequality across Cities.

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We will be presenting at APPAM: This paper investigates why the level of income inequality differs across U.S. cites. We also explore wh...
Thursday, October 30, 2014

How people who can't do math get shafted.

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I have a car (an Accord, if you must know) that is 17 months old.  When I bought the car, the dealer offered me a car loan at 0 percent int...
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Sunday, September 28, 2014

How the price of a Martini reveals the property value of a city

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A Hendricks Gibson is basically a commodity (although the bartender does need to know what she is doing). But a good Gibson at the Starli...
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Saturday, September 27, 2014

How Piketty's care with language can improve economics

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When I was a freshman in college, I read Fogel and Engerman's Time on the Cross .  I loathed the book, because it implicitly endorsed t...
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Monday, December 23, 2013

Hannah Harris Green in The Guardian on Race, Crime and Television

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She writes : The First 48 is an A&E true crime reality show that documents real police investigations for the first 48 hours after ...
Thursday, October 24, 2013

UW-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow has issues with sifting and winnowing.

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A geography professor at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse,  Rachel Slocum, made the mildly controversial point in an email to her stud...
Wednesday, October 02, 2013

The Windy City and The Foggy City

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Hannah Green writes: ERNEST HEMINGWAY famously wrote of Paris, “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then where...
Tuesday, October 01, 2013

Dr Patricia Harris on Healthcare Exchanges

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It is here :
Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Hannah Green interviews Josh Oppenheim Asia Times Online :: Skeletons in Indonesia's closet

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Asia Times Online :: Skeletons in Indonesia's closet INTERVIEW Skeletons in Indonesia's closet By Hannah Green  LOS ANGELES -...
Saturday, July 27, 2013

How I wish I could get an unbundled subscription to the Wall Street Journal

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I cannot do my job without reading it, and its reporters are still excellent, even in the Murdoch era.  And in general, I have learned to i...
Friday, July 26, 2013

Hannah Green writes on the problem of how victims of rape who are college students are treated

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In Open Magazine (an Indian newsweekly), she writes: Angie Epifano always wears the same necklace. It is simple—a round blue stone set ...
Thursday, July 25, 2013

Ten Favorite Metro Systems--A Personal View (reposted from Forbes blog).

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10) New York.  Butt ugly, smells bad, too many rats, but gets you a whole lot of places at reasonable speeds. 9)  Washington , DC.  Very...
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