Sunday, March 15, 2015

See me at the New York Times

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 I have taken up blogging at the New York Times and so am updating this blog infrequently.  Please follow my Times posts here .
Monday, January 5, 2015

It's a new year. Time for a dubious causal claim!

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A new study shows that richer neighborhoods in New York City are closer to public transportation and economic activity. It then makes a big ...
Sunday, November 16, 2014

Feds explore eliminating private debt collectors for student loans

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Feds explore eliminating private debt collectors from student loan system. Terrific move. 
Saturday, November 15, 2014

On The Perils of Being a Policy-Engaged Academic

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Jon Gruber is getting a ton of heat for his comments on Obamacare, which were recorded in seminars. Jon was the intellectual architect of O...
Thursday, October 2, 2014

Is Revenue at Public Colleges Really Stagnant?

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I wrote in a recent column  in the New York Times that tuition at public colleges has doubled over the past 25 years but that, paradoxical...
Saturday, August 9, 2014

Kids' Education and Parents' Longevity - Authors' Reply and Mine

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I posted a piece to the New York Times Upshot this week discussing   a paper by Esther Friedman of RAND and Rob Mare of UCLA.   The autho...
Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Dosage Matters. If It Doesn't, Your Study is LIkely Wrong

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A warning sign of a biased estimate of a treatment effect: no relationship between dosage and the outcome. In this study  highlighted in...