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	<title>PSC Information &#187; Human Capital, Labor &amp; Wealth</title>
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		<title>Microsoft Excel: The Ruiner of Global Economies?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a series of articles on the news that a well-cited and influential paper by Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff had an Excel error in it, which led to an overstating of the association between debt and growth. There are other more fundamental problems with the paper &#8211; see comments by economists below.
From a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Income Mobility and Welfare</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:29:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[International Monetary Fund Working Paper
By: Tom Krebs, Pravin Krishna, and William Maloney
Abstract:
This paper develops a framework for the quantitative analysis of individual income dynamics, mobility and welfare. Individual income is assumed to follow a stochastic process with two (unobserved) components, an i.i.d. component representing measurement error or transitory income shocks and an AR(1) component representing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intrade is no more, but we have some of its data</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The popular election website Intrade has ceased operations, but below are links to archives of Intrade trades as well as a few articles discussing the site and its history. Intrade was on shaky legs when US residents were prohibited from placing bets after the Commodity Futures Trading Commission accused the company of offering contracts outside [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Research on Black First Names</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first paper is by former PSC post-doc, Trevon Logan, which shows that blacks had distinctive names in the early 20th Century &#8211; that this is not new.  He and his co-authors used historical census data as well as data from death certificates.  The second paper explores whether searches involving &#8216;black&#8217; names results [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Data Reveals Job Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Task Specialization in U.S. Cities from 1880-2000
Guy Michaels, Ferdinand Rauch, Stephen J. Redding &#124; NBER Working Paper 18715
January 2013
In this study, economists Guy Michaels, Ferdinand Rauch, and Stephen J. Redding analyze the verbs used to describe jobs in the U.S. Dictionary of Occupational Titles during a 120 year time period. They do this by geographic [...]]]></description>
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