Re: Murray/Hernstein

2000-10-27 Thread Bryan Caplan
On the adequacy of M/H's SES measure, I know list member Bill Dickens has done a lot of work on this. He revised their measure to include more information. Better if Bill summarizes, but on the whole I'd say he concluded that M/H's SES moderately understates the importance of SES, but

Re: Murray/Hernstein

2000-10-27 Thread Chris Auld
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Bryan Caplan wrote: more information. Better if Bill summarizes, but on the whole I'd say he concluded that M/H's SES moderately understates the importance of SES, but intelligence still matters a great deal. Don't get me wrong: I'm not claiming that intelligence

Re: Top 10 Economic Puzzles

2000-10-27 Thread Robin Hanson
One more big puzzle: 8) Why do people have fewer children as they get richer? David Friedman wrote: 4) Why do people agree to disagree? Haven't you published a solution to that problem? No what I've written just undermines one proposed solution. I have my own pet theory, as you have for many