Re: Card/Krueger Revisited

2000-10-02 Thread Chris Auld
Wasn't it John Kennan who wrote a piece which summarized the original Card and Krueger results as: the placebo had a big positive effect, the treatement had no effect, and the sample size is n=2? Chris Auld (403)220-4098 Economics, University of Calgarymailto

patenting

2000-10-06 Thread Chris Auld
papers with patented algorithms? Isn't the whole point ostensibly to generate reproducible results? 2. Would more widescale patenting of such algorithms lead to increased or decreased aggregate research output? 3. Does anyone know if such a patent is actually enforc

Re: patenting

2000-10-12 Thread Chris Auld
for the purpose of trying to reproduce the result. Is that feasible? Chris Auld (403)220-4098 Economics, University of Calgarymailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Calgary, Alberta, CanadaURL:http://jerry.ss.ucalgary.ca/

Re: Top 10 Economic Puzzles

2000-10-26 Thread Chris Auld
s in solid controlled experiments or good natural experiments. Chris Auld (403)220-4098 Economics, University of Calgarymailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Calgary, Alberta, CanadaURL:http://jerry.ss.ucalgary.ca/

Re: Murray/Hernstein

2000-10-26 Thread Chris Auld
t concerns how race factors into all this, and I'm not even going to go there. Individually, none of Herrnstein and Murray's results would pass muster as an undergraduate term paper in economics, much less a study in a refereed journal. And if you sum junk, you just get aggregate junk.

Re: Murray/Hernstein

2000-10-27 Thread Chris Auld
telligence matters directly, and if it does, by how much. Chris Auld (403)220-4098 Economics, University of Calgarymailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Calgary, Alberta, CanadaURL:http://jerry.ss.ucalgary.ca/