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Class (SES; author uses "SEB" = Socio-Economic Background) primarily affects starting salaries, whereas intelligence affects salar...

How easy is it to raise SAT scores via test prep? The figures below come from The Effect of Admissions Test Preparation: Evidence from NELS:...

Some interesting discussion by Turing biographer and mathematical physicist Andrew Hodges of Turing's early thoughts about the brain as...

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The NYTimes asked me to comment on Fisher v. Texas , the case involving affirmative action in higher education that the Supreme Court has a...

Pseudo-Chinese gibberish -- didn't Shaq do the same to Yao Ming when he first came in the league? I think Yao Ming played it off: "...

Econtalk interviews Adam Davidson about his recent Atlantic article on US manufacturing. Adam says he "is good at math and computers...

I went back to Bowles and Gintis to compare their results to those of Greg Clark that I posted about recently. The largest correlation rep...

This photo takes up an entire wall of the UC Davis physics building, next to the elevators on the theorists' fourth floor. Click for lar...

While at UC Davis to give a colloquium earlier this week, I had the pleasure of meeting economic historian Greg Clark in person. Here's...

... and economic history is even harder. Andy Lo (MIT) explains that economists have yet to agree on the causes and consequences of and rem...

This is an interesting statistical analysis of the significance of Jeremy Lin's performance in his first 4 games. As Magic said during ...

This recent paper (NYTimes coverage ) notes that achievement gaps between 10th and 90th percentile income families are now larger than corr...

I'll be giving a colloquium at UC Davis on Monday. Please come if you can! slides Title: Genetics, intelligence and other quantitati...

A correspondent supplied this interesting data from a 2010 survey of Wharton alumni. As expected, financiers out-earned everyone else, with ...

A correspondent sent this depressing figure. I suppose this distribution of majors was OK when Americans could make their livings by selling...

This is a great lecture, informed by Coggan's background as a historian. If you already know something about the subject I suggest start...

Jeremy Lin , in da house! A Jason Kidd-like performance. I thought he was going to wash out of the league. Lin was not heavily recruited out...

[ Unfortunately some of the links below are broken. See updated 2014 version of this post: Talent Selection . ] Personnel Selection , whet...

Daniel Golden (Bloomberg) reports that the Department of Education is now investigating both Princeton and Harvard regarding discrimination...

Robert Wald reviews the 2010 book Many Worlds?: Everett, Quantum Theory, and Reality , based on meetings at Oxford and at the Perimeter Ins...

Megan McCardle on her 10 year reunion at Chicago's Booth School of Business. The Atlantic : ... For my summer 2000 internship at Merrill...

I found this econtalk podcast very interesting. The comments are also good. We Americans are very lucky to have inherited a high trust socie...

Good manufacturing jobs that remain in the US will require significant skills, such as the ability to run capital intensive equipment. Unfor...