Robert VerBruggen

Alan Krueger, prominent Princeton economist, passes away

Princeton University is saddened to share that Alan Krueger, James Madison Professor of Political Economy, passed away over the weekend. Alan was recognized as a true leader in his field, known and admired for both his research and teaching.

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Psyarxiv.com 380d 5 tweets

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How Much Time Do Criminals Really Serve?

Alex Tabarrok - Marginal REVOLUTION 4d 2 tweets

Many people were surprised at Paul Manafort’s relatively light sentencing for bank fraud, filing fake tax returns, and failure to report foreign assets and compared his sentence of 47 months to other cases of seemingly lesser crimes given longer...

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Trump's Emergency Declaration vs. DACA: A Study in Contrasts

National Review 4d 1 tweets

We did far better than they did, so in a nice change of pace the Right should be proud of its politicians.

Robert VerBruggen Facing similar tests of principle -- DACA and the emergency declaration, both of which involved presidents overreaching to achieve their party's immigration-policy goals -- Republicans handily outperformed Democrats. 4d

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USC is a corrupt, tax-exempt hedge fund

Washington Examiner 5d 13 tweets

Like most alumni of University of Southern California across the country today, my phone lit up with a number of iterations of this text: "USC's inability to go 5 seconds without a major scandal is just hilarious at this point."

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The Stanford Open Policing Project

openpolicing.stanford.edu 5d 1 tweets

We are collecting, releasing, and analyzing data on millions of traffic stops across the United States.

Robert VerBruggen Really neat website with tons of data on police stops. What's especially interesting is that -- using the hit-rate test or the threshold test -- bias against Hispanics seems far clearer than bias against blacks. (Toggle the charts) 5d

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The SAT, Test Prep, Income and Race

Marginal REVOLUTION 507d 2 tweets

The announcement of the new, new SAT has created a lot of hand-wringing about SAT scores and their correlations with income and also race. Wonkblog, the New York Times and many others all feature a table or chart showing how SAT scores increase with...

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Robert VerBruggen There's probably some newer research by now, but this from @ATabarrok is a nice counter to hysteria over college test prep. It actually just doesn't do that much. 5d

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The Professor and the Sacred Cow

National Review 5d 1 tweets

Though heavily educated himself and a professor at a public university, Bryan Caplan has soured on schooling.

Robert VerBruggen My review of Bryan Caplan's book about how useless college is, if by random chance you're thinking about that this week. 5d

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Felicity Huffman & American Diploma Worship

National Review 5d 2 tweets

Diploma worship ought to be beneath us.

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Dick's to Remove Guns From 125 Stores this Year, More in Years to Come

Stephen Gutowski - Washington Free Beacon 5d 1 tweets

Dick's Sporting Goods said during an earnings call on Tuesday that it plans to remove firearms and ammunition from 125 of its stores in the coming year.

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A brave new world: Can robots be sued?

Axios 267d 3 tweets

But its creators could be held liable, too.

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Is the Threat of the Death Penalty Good for the Innocent?

National Review 5d 3 tweets

There’s strong evidence that if someone is innocent, they’re far more likely to be exonerated if they’re sentenced to death.

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Robert VerBruggen If you're wrongly convicted, the best way to get exonerated is to be on death row. 5d

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