Rohan
Rohan
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Labour | Economic history | Experimental Economics
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🔬 Published in the @jpolecon.bsky.social written by Stefano DellaVigna, Woojin Kim, and @elizabethlinos.bsky.social: "Bottlenecks for Evidence Adoption." We analyzed RCT adoption across US cities.

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Bottlenecks for Evidence Adoption | Journal of Political Economy: Vol 132, No 8
Governments increasingly use randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to test innovations, yet we know little about how they incorporate results into policymaking. We study 30 US cities that ran 73 RCTs wi...
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December 19, 2024 at 9:33 PM
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Here is the paper!

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What do #workers think of #unions? @awhf.bsky.social, William Kimball & Thomas Kochan @mitiwer.bsky.social show that workers are willing to join and financially support organizations currently unavailable under US law and practice beyond traditional unions.
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December 19, 2024 at 10:45 PM
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You can read @hopkinsonben.bsky.social's full piece on Madrid’s metro expansion here, with plenty of detail on how the anglosphere currently fails to build cheaply and what to do about it. worksinprogress.co/issue/how-ma...
How Madrid built its metro cheaply - Works in Progress
Madrid tripled the length of its metro system in just 12 years — faster and cheaper than almost any other city in the world. What can its expansion teach other cities?
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December 17, 2024 at 10:43 AM
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42. The Impact of Wage Differentials on R&D Offshoring and Invention Value
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December 13, 2024 at 3:49 PM