Alexander Robert William Robson wrote:
Isn't one of the most important parts of doing "quality" empirical work
the proper collection of data? Hasn't it been estabished that
the C-K failed this test miserably?
Other than the circular argument that "they didn't collect data properly
because
I've just come back to the office after a while on the road and noticed
Bryan's post on the Mariel boat lift and the response that mentioned the
Rybczynski theorem. If anyone is interested, I recently read an interesting
NBER paper on the Rybczynski theorem and immigration by Gordon Hanson and
Title:
Below is the abstractand link to a paper that addresses Card
Krueger's work.
The same authors have articles on the minimum wage coming out in the JoLE and
the SEJ. [Burkhauser, R.V. ,Couch, K.A. Wittenburg, D. Who minimum Wage
Increases Bite: An Analysis Using Monthly Data from the
In the presidential debates the other night, Harry Browne, the
libertarian candidate (did you think I would waste my time watching Bush
and Gore?), said that the way a free society would handle war is to
offer a prize to the person or persons who assassinated the leader(s) of
the opposing
"Alex Tabarrok [EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote:
Are there any good reasons for an anti-assassination policy?
Let us consider two situations:
* Not quite war (Cuba, Serbia until last week, Cold War USSR, etc.):
Killing a leader will only make him a martyr, esp. if he has a
strong popular
