A policy that focuses largely on shifting travelers out of cars and into transit will reduce mobility. An examination of work trip travel times in 276 metropolitan areas found that the length of public transit trips exceeded those for private automobiles in 272 of those areas. On average, public transit riders spend about 36 minutes traveling to work while private automobile travelers commute about 21 minutes. This does not have to be the case. The innovative use of HOT Lanes, such as the networks being built in Northern Virginia and discussed in Atlanta, Houston, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Miami can finance critically needed road capacity while also providing viable bus rapid transit alternatives.
testosterone levels normally surge during the middle of a pregnancy. This not only shapes the brain and sex organs of the child, but also affects the way its fingers grow. High levels of the stuff extend the ring fingers, making them longer than the index fingers. In general, men have relatively longer fourth fingers than women. Previous research has shown that men with significantly elongated ring fingers excel at competitive sports.
Finger length ratios are so easy to measure - just have the respondent trace his hand on a sheet of paper, that I am surprised it is not routinely done in surveys like the Health and Retirement Study and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics.
For the curious, my index and ring fingers are of approximately equal length.
Hat tip: Dan Black
Thus old-age male fertility provides a selective force against autosomal deleterious mutations at ages far past female menopause with no sharp upper age limit, eliminating the wall of death. Our findings illustrate the evolutionary importance of males and mating preferences, and show that one-sex demographic models are insufficient to describe the forces that shape human senescence.
I do find it odd, as well, that these models would not routinely include separate behavior for men and women.
Hat tip: Charlie Brown
Hat tip: Don Hacherl
Mr. Bush's legacy is thus a bizarro version of Ronald Reagan's. Reagan entered office declaring that government was not the solution to our problems, it was the problem. Ironically, he demonstrated that government could do some important things right -- he helped tame inflation and masterfully drew the Cold War to a nonviolent triumph for the Free World. By contrast, Mr. Bush has massively expanded the government along with the sense that government is incompetent.
A parent who attended the game told The Associated Press that Covenant continued to make 3-pointers — even in the fourth quarter. She praised the Covenant players but said spectators and an assistant coach were cheering wildly as their team edged closer to 100 points.
"I think the bad judgment was in the full-court press and the 3-point shots," said Renee Peloza, whose daughter plays for Dallas Academy. "At some point, they should have backed off."
Covenant school has since asked for a forfeit for their unsportsperson-like behavior.
Hat tip: Charlie Brown
Addendum: the Covenant High girls basketball coach has been fired.
The randomistas, as Ms Duflo and her comrades are called, liken their studies to the clinical trials that prove the efficacy of new drugs. But the ultimate ambition of economics is for something more akin to anatomy. Researchers hope to dissect the underlying physiology of an economic problem, revealing how the leg bone is connected to the thigh bone. With a full anatomy of behaviour—what economists call a structural model—they can determine if a policy or project will work even before it has been attempted.I read that as a gentle poke at the randomistas and a nod to the view, implicit in my papers with Shannon Seitz and Jeremy Lise on the Canadian SSP program and in the excellent paper (since published in the AER) on the Mexican PROGRESA program by Petra Todd and Ken Wolpin, that experiments and structural models are complements, not substitutes.
What, then, unites these eight young stars and the discipline they may come to dominate? Economists still share a taste for the Greek alphabet: they like to provide formal, algebraic accounts of the behaviour they explain. And they pride themselves on the sophistication of their investigative methods. They are usually better at teasing confessions out of data than their rivals in other social sciences. What defines economics? Economics is what economists do—the best of them, anyway.I think this bit indirectly highlights the fact that recent economic imperialism, unlike the efforts led by Becker and others, rides on the superior applied econometric skills of economists rather than on their theory. This is particularly true for the large inroads that economists have made into education research.
