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More generally, your stance on these investors depends in part on your stance on homeownership vs. renting. If you care about affordability and mobility, investor activity seems to help that. The problem is that in the US we put too much emphasis on homeownership as the primary

Does anyone have a good take on how to update their priors based on this new result casting doubt on supply? Haven't read it yet but this seems important. Does their conclusion differ based on different data or different methods? Chris Elmendorf Alex Armlovich

So cool! Mike Morrison at it again! Can't wait for this to come to social science journals in like 50 years.

An idea I’ll float here while I figure out how to operationalize: Lots of researchers with strong causal inference/impact evaluation training have recently lost their jobs due to federal funding cuts. Meanwhile, there are a zillion (approximately) policies my team would love

Economists dream about stochastic shocks to policy. This may be too many.

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This nicely explains why having an RCV primary makes the primary almost entirely meaningless: youtube.com/shorts/46Z6cAM… If you're gonna do it, at least have one stage or do Final 4/5 Voting. And don't tell me this is evidence that RCV helps third parties :)