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interviewed Robert Putnam to see what he thought of Nico Voigtländer's, Shanker Satyanath's and my study on association density and ...

your chances of ending up on welfare yourself are higher. So what? The link is only interesting if it is causal  -- and unobservables can ve...

Summer is upon us; Barcelona is swarming with tourists. Doubtlessly, many are here to brush up their Spanish a bit, too. Mauricio Drelichman...

Tyler Cowan has some interesting observations on tax rates in (now bankrupt) Detroit - high rates, low revenue. Who would want to live there...

about the Euro, in case you needed them. If countries suffering negative shocks see their young leaving for greener pastures, there is nobod...

in at least one dimension  ... not sure what this is based on it, but there is no doubt that there is a real problem here. Just the other da...

perhaps some financial history is not a bad thing. Two banks (Metzler and de Rothschild) have endowed a (visiting) professorship in financia...