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RT @jmhorp: My Thanksgiving prices post is cited by the White House and Politifact:.
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On the same day Joe Biden held the annual presidential "turkey pardon," White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre u
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RT @aboutJoy: I saw the Barbie movie. Last month, I was so behind that I just put up links to @maiamindel's movie posts. Here I suggest fur….
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RT @jmhorp: Is the Dodge Caravan harder for typical family to buy than it was in 1996? It certainly has a lot more features (but not heated….
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1996 was a big year for minivans. While modern minivans had been around for about a decade by that point, 1996 marked a turning point. That year Dodge introduced what is referred to as the “t…
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RT @jmhorp: How well are blue-collar production workers compensated? In my @EconsEveryDay post today, I try to look at the long run, and th….
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RT @jmhorp: "Our blog has been cited by The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Reason Magazine, Marginal Revolution, a….
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It’s the 3-year anniversary of EWED. Thanks for reading and sharing. Our blog has been cited by The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Reason Magazine, Marginal Revolutio…
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RT @jmhorp: "more than 30% of the citations suggested by ChatGPT do not exist". Great new paper co-authored by @aboutJoy and summarized by….
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I posted a new working paper with systematic evidence for false citations when ChatGPT (GPT-3.5) writes about academic literature. Buchanan, Joy and Shapoval, Olga, GPT-3.5 Hallucinates Nonexistent…
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RT @aboutJoy: With a link to @EconsEveryDay on the value of campus clubs for skill development.
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RT @jmhorp: Thanks to rising housing prices last year and rising interest rates this year, a mortgage payment on the median new home is now….
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Mortgage interest rates are climbing quickly, while housing prices are still mostly high. These factors combined means that it is much more expensive to buy a home than in the recent past. But how …
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RT @jmhorp: How has freedom and liberalism in the world fared since 1947? While we still face challenges today, I would hope that the found….
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The Mont Pelerin Society was founded 75 years ago. The title of this post was the opening sentence of the Statement of Aims the new Society agreed upon. They had many concerns about what they consi…
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RT @zachary_bartsch: You can read more from my colleagues and I at @EconsEveryDay . Thanks to @bryan_caplan @Scott….
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It turned out that economists are also human beings and that no amount of self-congratulatory Spock-praising would stop that from being the case. Indeed, with some candid feedback, I became convinc…
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RT @jmhorp: My @EconsEveryDay post looks at the growth of household wealth during the pandemic. The big winner? In percentage terms, it is….
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In the US wealth distribution, which group has seen the largest increase in wealth during the pandemic? A recent working paper by Blanchet, Saez, and Zucman attempts to answer that question with ve…
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RT @mikemakowsky: Work-from-home has dropped a potentisl housing windfall in our laps, but cities need to move fast. .
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Subscribing to the “Housing Theory of Everything” is to confront the fact that a problem can 1) be important, 2) effect (nearly) everyone, 3) have an obvious and welfare improving polic…
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RT @jmhorp: What do the "Mom Life" comics tell us about the balance of childcare and housework among married couples? I dig into the data i….
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Earlier this week my co-blogger Mike had a really great post on work-from-home, and how we might turn former workspaces into new home spaces. It’s a really great idea, and an excellent exampl…
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RT @1ArmedEconomist: In an new paper, we find that job lock remains at least as high after the Affordable Care Act as it was before.https:/….
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Most Americans are covered by employer-sponsored health insurance, either through their own job or a family member’s. This can make it difficult to switch jobs- the new job might not offer in…
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RT @zachary_bartsch: The degree of Market concentration doesn’t cause inflation. Oil and grain price volatility result in *less* consumer p….
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RT @jmhorp: I am on vacation this week, and despite high gas prices, Americans still seem to be taking to the road for vacations in large n….
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I’m on vacation this week. But no, I’m not just saying this to get out of posting this week, or to brag. Americans really have started going back to the normal routine of vacations afte…
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RT @mikemakowsky: Demagoguery, budget incentives, collateral damage, and perp shaming. The third act of American Prohibition will play out….
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As you know, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, effectively giving states the ability to legislate the conditions, if any, under which abortion is legal. Many states had trigger laws in place…
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