Reminder: you don't have to be a prick to be a successful academic.

Can smartphone usage at school negatively affect learning and well-being?

In an event study conducted by Sara Abrahamsson, who graduated from NHH/FAIR last year, she found that a smartphone ban had positive effects on mental health, bullying, and grades.

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Nuggets v. Timberwolves is gonna be amazing

Meta-analysis: Diversity has only a vanishingly small effect on team performance. osf.io/preprints/psya… We conducted a reproducible registered report meta-analysis on the relationship between diversity and team performance. Overall, our results show that diversity (across

Last week a group of disabled political scientists published an open letter to the APSA Council.

We are asking that the recently formed disability status committee be led by & comprised of PWD who deserve to speak to their own experiences.

Sign & Share:
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Young American men commit much fewer crimes than previous generations did at the same age.

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Uber faces significant competition for passengers.

However, it leverages its significant monopsony power to depress wages by an estimated 14 percent.
jackwfisher.com/monop_ride.pdf

🚨New paper: The Impact of Private Hosting on the Integration of Ukrainian Refugees 🚨

w/ Mathis Herpell, Niklas Harder, Alexandra Orlova, Dominik Hangartner, Jens Hainmueller Immigration Policy Lab

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#polisciresearch #econtwitter An Economist

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Cool new paper from Jake Jares and Neil Malhotra, conditionally accepted at American Political Science Review.

PDF: jakejares.com/publication/ja…

This paper is a helpful example of a careful argument for a 'null result'; see esp. pp. 27-32.

Who is doing the equivalent to Andrew Carnegie’s libraries now?

The 1,500 cities that he gave libraries to in the 1900s had 8-13% higher patenting rates than similar cities without them. Plus, their kids stayed in school longer, and they later chose safer & high prestige careers

timeless

Are immigrants more innovative?

Yup.

Immigrants tend to 1.) make up a higher share of business owners and 2.) operate more innovative and productive firms.

This 'implies [immigrants make] large contributions to U.S. innovation and growth.'

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