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Does Stagnant Male Income Explain Falling Fertility and Marriage?

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AGI Will Not Make Labor Worthless
The discovery and use of machinery may be … injurious to the labouring class, as some of their number will be thrown out of employment, and population…
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Maximum Progress 2024 Review
The underrated, overrated, top, and bottom posts of the year
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How Scientific Incentives Stalled the Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance, and How We Can Fix It
My latest post at Tim Hwang's Macroscience
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How much of "Ideas Getting Harder To Find" is due to declining researcher skill?
In a now famous 2020 paper Nicholas Bloom, Charles Jones, John Van Reenen, and Michael Webb document a puzzling trend: since 1940, research inputs have…
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Anti-car Urbanists Should Be More Pro-Market
Simply deferring to market incentives would improve urban infrastructure and design.
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Is The Great Stagnation Actually Just a 'So-So' Stagnation?
Human capital adjustment attributes lots of GDP growth to extra education, but if this education is mostly signaling, then we're getting more growth…
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Literacy Rates Haven't Fallen By 20% Since the Department of Education Was Created
But there are other good reasons to shake up the DOE
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A Theory of Equilibrium in the Offense-Defense Balance
Don't Make the Peak Oil Mistake When Thinking About the Offense-Defense Balance
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Why I Didn't Vote
This is not advice
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