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2quartzite
Fév 23, 2010, 6:53 am

: )

3Carnophile
Avr 14, 2010, 10:34 am

“The Effect of Daughters on Partisanship”

NBER Working Paper No. w15873
DALTON CONLEY, EMILY RAUSCHER

Washington (2008) finds that, controlling for total number of children, each additional daughter makes a member of Congress more likely to vote liberally and attributes this finding to socialization. However, daughters’ influence could manifest differently for elite politicians and the general citizenry, thanks to the selection gradient particular to the political process. This study asks whether the proportion of female biological offspring affects political party identification. Using nationally-representative data from the General Social Survey, we find that female offspring induce more conservative political identification. We hypothesize that this results from the change in reproductive fitness strategy that daughters may evince.

4Carnophile
Avr 14, 2010, 10:36 am

The personal IS political.

5Carnophile
Mai 7, 2010, 11:32 am

Economic Growth Given Machine Intelligence (pdf file)

Robin Hanson rocks.

6Adaptive_Agent
Mai 9, 2010, 12:26 pm

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7Carnophile
Mai 9, 2010, 5:33 pm

Jesse_W, since you're the human instantiation of the Eliza program, I expect you to contribute significantly to output growth.

9Jesse_wiedinmyer
Mai 13, 2010, 2:38 pm

And I thought I was just a rotten kid with bad intentions...

11Carnophile
Juin 3, 2010, 11:28 am

Mend It; Don't End It: Optimal Mortality in Affairs of Honor

One of the conclusions, according to the Abstract: It is never socially optimal to outlaw dueling. Take that, wimpy liberals!

12Carnophile
Juil 9, 2010, 5:29 pm

An Option Value Problem from Seinfeld.

How to tell if a man is spongeworthy without complete markets or replicating portfolios.

14Jesse_wiedinmyer
Modifié : Août 2, 2010, 1:00 am

I'm not sure this counts as a "working paper," but I think it should get honorable mention, nonetheless...

Monkeys hate flying squirrels, report monkey-annoyance experts

15Carnophile
Août 2, 2010, 9:55 am

My God, I was sure that would be at The Onion! Christian Science Monitor?!?!?!?! Definitely hilarious, in any case.

16Jesse_wiedinmyer
Août 2, 2010, 10:14 am

I so want to be a monkey-annoyance expert when I grow up. I've got the skills, methinks.

17Jesse_wiedinmyer
Modifié : Août 2, 2010, 10:18 am

What do you do? Oh, I annoy monkeys. I'm really good at it, you know.

18Carnophile
Août 2, 2010, 12:36 pm

Unfortunately, the tunnel-visioned bean counters at the NSF are making things difficult in this field:

Super Monkey Collider Loses Funding.

19Carnophile
Sep 7, 2010, 8:51 pm

Grisly:

"Economic Conditions and the Quality of Suicide Terrorism"

ABSTRACT

We analyze the link between economic conditions and the quality of suicide terrorism. While the existing empirical literature shows that poverty and economic conditions are not correlated with the quantity of terror, theory predicts that poverty and poor economic conditions may affect the quality of terror. Poor economic conditions may lead more able, better-educated individuals to participate in terror attacks, allowing terror organizations to send better-qualified terrorists to more complex, higher-impact, terror missions. Using the universe of Palestinian suicide terrorists against Israeli targets between the years 2000 and 2006 we provide evidence on the correlation between economic conditions, the characteristics of suicide terrorists and the targets they attack. High levels of unemployment enable terror organizations to recruit more educated, mature and experienced suicide terrorists who in turn attack more important Israeli targets.

Something in me revolts at calling deadlier attacks “higher-quality terrorism.”

20Carnophile
Sep 16, 2010, 9:42 pm

Blame Canada France!

Did France Cause the Great Depression?

Abstract
Blah blah blah It was France's fault! Blah blah blah.

And you guys smoke too much, too.

22Adaptive_Agent
Sep 18, 2010, 4:37 pm

24Carnophile
Modifié : Jan 18, 2011, 5:56 pm

Are gay cities fabulous?

If that city's where the boys are, it has to be fabulous.

Ick, but still funny.

25Carnophile
Avr 20, 2011, 7:39 pm

Okay, so it's not a working paper, but...

Even terrorists have downward-sloping demand curves.

27Carnophile
Modifié : Mai 29, 2012, 9:35 pm

Semiparametric Inference in Dynamic Binary Choice Models

Just kidding! Try this:

Peer Effects in Sexual Initiation: Separating Demand and Supply Mechanisms

From the Abstract:
...in the case of sexual initiation, there are two distinct social mechanisms - peer-group norms and partner availability with separate effects and different potential interventions. Here I develop an equilibrium search and matching model for first sexual partners that specifies distinct roles for these two mechanisms as part of demand and supply. I estimate the model using a national sample of high school students, with data over time on individual virginity status.
High school students are honest about their "virginity status"?

Love this:
Changes in opposite-gender search behavior (i.e., partner availability) also have a large impact on initiation rates for boys, but not for girls.
Heh, no kidding.

29Carnophile
Modifié : Sep 14, 2013, 11:04 am

30Carnophile
Sep 14, 2013, 11:03 am

Working paper at Social Science Research Network:

Continued Existence of Cows Disproves Central Tenets of Capitalism?

31quartzite
Sep 15, 2013, 11:30 pm

We need like buttons for these

32Carnophile
Modifié : Oct 9, 2013, 6:05 pm

Now that it's October, it's the appropriate time for

Macroeconomic Policy and the Optimal Destruction of Vampires

Journal of Political Economy, June 1982.

For more on optimization in the presence of predatory undead agents, see the Mathematics group here.

33Carnophile
Nov 18, 2013, 10:24 pm

Shocking Behavior: Random Wealth in Antebellum Georgia and Human Capital Across Generations, HOYT BLEAKLEY and JOSEPH P. FERRIE, NBER Working Paper No. w19348

Does the lack of wealth constrain parents' investments in the human capital of their descendants? We conduct a fifty-year followup of an episode in which such constraints would have been plausibly relaxed by a random allocation of wealth to families. We track descendants of those eligible to win in Georgia's Cherokee Land Lottery of 1832, which had nearly universal participation among adult white males. Winners received close to the median level of wealth - a large financial windfall orthogonal to parents' underlying characteristics that might have also affected their children's human capital. Although winners had slightly more children than non-winners, they did not send them to school more. Sons of winners have no better adult outcomes (wealth, income, literacy) than the sons of non-winners, and winners' grandchildren do not have higher literacy or school attendance than non-winners' grandchildren. This suggests only a limited role for family financial resources in the transmission of human capital across generations and a potentially more important role for other factors that persist through family lines.

35Adaptive_Agent
Nov 9, 2014, 12:59 pm

>32 Carnophile:

A little late for Halloween, but:

The Economics of the Undead.

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