Related to this is the question of whether there really is a median voter.
Let's take 10 issues--abortion, gun control, gay rights, trade policy, tax
rates, immigration, middle east policy, racial preferences, CO2/global
warming policy, and SDI/star wars missile defense. What percentage
Whenever we look at violent, underdeveloped nations, we often have two
responses to their condition:
1. They have a preference for institutions that restrain peace, growth and
development. Example: Middle Eastern people are poor because people have
a taste for big, bad government.
2. They
At Chicago, econ math GRE's tend to be substantially higher than other
social science Ph.D.'s. Verbal scores are comparable to humanities
Ph.D.'s. Also remember that econ depts take a lot of asian students, which
probably pushes down the verbal GRE score. More generally, any time you
require math,
In the book Sociology and its publics, Neil Smelser has a chart
comparing GRE's for various disciplines. His point was that sociology, in
comparison to other social sciences such as economics, get bad recruits.
Fabio
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Bryan Caplan wrote:
Do you have a cite for that, Zach?
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Bryan Caplan wrote:
The Political Business Cycle story has not fared well empirically in
recent years (though Kevin Grier has done interesting work on Mexico's
PBC). But it seems overwhelming in the Oscars. It seems like roughly
half of the big nominees get released in
Simple - you can anonymously buy impotence treatment over the Internet. No
need to tell a real person that you ahve a sexual problem. I've also heard
people use v!agra for enhancing sexual experience, not too cure a medical
problem. Those people probably want to avoid doctors.
Fabio
On Tue, 20
I think the argument goes like this:
1. The policies both parties agree on is smaller in size than what each
party advocates individually. I.e., the equilibrium of the bargaining game
is smaller than the whole policy space.
2. In general, most of what each party wants is un-libertarian and
Yes - evidence: the population of Canada is highly clustered around the
border. I have hunch they would bolt the second the border was opened.
Fabio
On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Bryan Caplan wrote:
Question: If there were free migration between the U.S. and Canada,
would Canada lose a lot of
experts weigh in? That includes all Canadians. Eric?
fabio guillermo rojas wrote:
Yes - evidence: the population of Canada is highly clustered around the
border. I have hunch they would bolt the second the border was opened.
Fabio
On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Bryan Caplan wrote:
Question
My guess is positive because California and New York tend to have a lot of
high income people. Around 0.4? Fabio
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Bryan Caplan wrote:
I've calculated the correlation coefficient between per-capita state
income and the percent of the vote Kerry got. Guesses? I'll post the
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