Altogether, if bonuses are paid out, Landry will earn $4.5 million from for a job that lasted less than 12 months. Florida law caps the amount of presidential salaries funded by the state at $200,000. His previous most senior administrative role was as Department Chair.
Sonny Rollins, one of the most influential Jazz musicians of our time, died this afternoon. He was 95
"These days, if the president wants to get back at a political enemy, he just sics the DOJ on them without any pretense. Where's the style? Where's the panache?"
New working paper with Amol Singh Raswan
and Chris Udry: "The Sisyphean Pursuit of Evidence for Poverty Traps."
A central idea in development economics is that poverty can trap people. We went looking for the cleanest evidence. Here's what we found – and didn't.
HOLY SHIT prosecutors kicked off grand jurors and then re-presented the case against the Broadview 6, then altered the grand jury transcripts to hide it from the judge.
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The Sloan Foundation is searching for a new Director of its Economics Program. At a critical time when federal research funding is limited, this is a critical position. Please circulate this opportunity to shape and support economics and economists widely! sloan.org/about/careers
New NBER working paper. We meta-analyze 82 RCTs of low-cost parent programs in 20+ countries. We use data on unwritten RCTs from funder records, RCT registries, author queries, etc. to estimate a model that adjusts for publication bias and characterizes the effect distribution for unwritten studies.
Link is here: www.nber.org/papers/w35299
Preliminary and suggestions welcome!
Wow, I didn't expect our paper on iPhones and fertility to generate this much buzz—thanks for all the feedback! Rather than scattershot replies, here's a compilation of thoughts and new robustness checks. 🧵1/15
“These days, if the president wants to get back at a political enemy, he just sics the DOJ on them without any pretense. Where’s the style? Where’s the panac...