Robert VerBruggen
Full-time dad of two, part-time @NRO policy writer, @FamStudies research fellow, Wisconsin native, @MedillSchool alum, metalhead, gamer. Tweets my own.
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The Case for Making the School Day Longer
The average U.S. student spends more overall time at school than students in any other country.
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Robert VerBruggen
I have been cited in Teen Vogue.
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What to Do about the Gig Economy
California is imposing onerous new regulations, but there is another way.
The Flynn effect for fluid IQ may not generalize to all ages or ability levels: A population-based study of 10,000 US adolescents
Generational changes in IQ (the Flynn Effect) have been extensively researched and debated. Within the US, gains of 3 points per decade have been acce…
Robert VerBruggen
"A negative Flynn Effect for those with low intellectual ability suggests widening disparities in cognitive ability."
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We Do Not Need to Expand Social Security
New studies show that retirees are among the richest Americans.
Sentencing Law and Policy: "Race and Class: A Randomized Experiment with Prosecutors"
Robert VerBruggen
Study does an RCT having prosecutors look at cases and decide charges; finds no race or class effect. RCTs are "gold standard" ... to the extent we trust participants and conditions represent the real world. Not really sold.
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Trump’s Commonsensical Food-Stamp Rule
Increasing benefit receipt is not an end in itself, especially when it comes at the expense of an incentive for adults to find work.
New York City Might Avoid Making Second Amendment History
New York saw the writing on the wall and made a strategic retreat.
A ‘Misperceived Threat to Their Dominant Social Status’ Is Probably Not What’s Killing White People
A viral study has big flaws.
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Robert VerBruggen
Interesting study suggesting that ending affirmative action in California was harmful to underrepresented minorities, including in the labor market years later
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What Conservatives Can Learn from Elizabeth Warren’s Economic Advisers
A review of The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay, by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman.
Robert VerBruggen
Forgot to tweet this out last week because I was preoccupied with my child being born: my review of the Saez/Zucman book, aiming to look past the big data issues I've written about before
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Growing sense of social status threat and concomitant deaths of despair among whites
A startling population health phenomenon has been unfolding since the turn of the 21st century. Whites in the United States, who customarily have the …
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Robert VerBruggen
Wasn't it the NYT that pointed out that Trump won big in areas hit by opioids? Anyway some other people have discovered this and now it proves that white deaths are caused by whites' loss of racial status.
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How Kamala Harris’s Campaign Unraveled
Ms. Harris is the only 2020 Democrat who has fallen hard out of the top tier of candidates. She has proved to be an uneven campaigner who changes her message and tactics to little effect and has a staff torn into factions.
Racial bias in the sharing economy and the role of trust by Katrine Berg Nødtvedt, Hallgeir Sjåstad, Siv Skard, Helge Thorbjørnsen, Jay Van Bavel :: SSRN
The rise of peer-to-peer platforms is one of the major economic and societal developments in the last decade. We investigated whether people engage in racial di
Fully Implementing the Affordable Care Act
While enacted in 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has never been fully implemented. The Health Insurance Marketplaces and partial Medicaid expansion were implemented in 2014, but under the Obama Administration full implementation was prevented by...
Robert VerBruggen
An AAF analysis of what would happen if we implemented the ACA as originally passed, with universal Medicaid expansion, CSR payments, and the individual mandate, because [if anyone knows why this exists please lmk].
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To see why Amtrak's losses mount, hop on the Empire Builder train
Its passengers are mostly silver-haired retirees, oil-field workers and a few yo...