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The Causal Effect of Income is (Often) Zero
Discover more from Maximum Progress Maximum Progress is a blog by Max Tabarrok on economics, science, philosophy, and progress. Over 9,000 subscribers Already have an account? Sign in Evidence on the effect of income on health, education, crime, and child outcomes from lotteries and RCTs Poverty is associated with a litany of negative outcomes in addition to the direct effects of material deprivation.
Peptide-DB: A Million-Peptide Database to Accelerate Science
Skip Nav Destination Online ISSN: 1558-2485 Print ISSN: 1558-2477 Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization (2025) 14 (1-2): 106–117. Citation Maxwell Tabarrok; Peptide-DB: A Million-Peptide Database to Accelerate Science. Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization 2025; 14 (1-2): 106–117. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/INOV.a.276 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex This content is only available as a PDF.
Is Air Travel Getting Worse?
Over the past couple of years, bad personal experiences with delays, testimonies from friends, and newsorreactions to air travel incidents seem to have become much more common. It’s difficult to tell if these extra anecdotes reflect a change in the true rate of airline accidents and delays or if they instead result from fluctuations in the human social layer where confirmation bias, saliency, and mimesis can draw our concern far out of proportion. Thus, I turn to the primary source data.
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