Fertility rates have fallen everywhere but have fallen furthest in richer countries.

Ships are avoiding the Suez Canal due to Houthi attacks and rather go the long way around Africa via the Cape of Good Hope.

The largest risks for supply chains and inflation are geopolitical.

German industry and the rise of the Nazis: a large proportion of the biggest companies had substantive links with Nazi party. 'Firms supporting the Nazi movement experienced unusually high returns, outperforming unconnected ones by 5%-8% between January and March 1933.' QJE paper

Homelessness is rising rapidly in Britain.

Homelessness is rising rapidly in Britain.

A more equal wealth distribution in some 🇩🇪areas led to 'higher average incomes and more entrepreneurship which goes in hand with a right-shifted skill, income, and wealth distribution... more innovative industrial by-employment during transition'

New paper in Economic Journal

Ideological bias and authority bias by economists:
'changing source attributions from mainstream to less/non-mainstream, or removing them, reduces economists’ agreement with statements. This contradicts... that in evaluating a statement one should only pay attention to content'

The long-run effects of climate change: 'if climate change is prolonged, then the disruptions they cause can cumulate and lead to political instability.' New paper in AER proceedings.

'We uncover coding errors for about 25% of [economics and political science] studies...
52% of re-analysis effect size estimates are smaller than the original published estimates...
Most teams find a negative relationship between replicators' experience and reproducibility'