Lars P. Syll

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Too much of ‘we controlled for’ The gender pay gap is a fact that, sad to say, to a non-negligible extent is the result of discrimination. And even though many women are not deliberately discriminated against, but rather self-select into lower-wage jobs, this in no way magically explains away the discrimination gap. As decades of socialization research has shown, women may be ‘structural’ victims of impersonal social mechanisms that in different ways...

Bayesian networks and causal diagrams Whereas a Bayesian network​ can only tell us how likely one event is, given that we observed another, causal diagrams can answer interventional and counterfactual questions. For example, the causal fork A <– B –> C tells us in no uncertain terms that wiggling A would have no effect on C, no matter how intense the wiggle. On the other hand, a Bayesian network is not equipped to handle a ‘wiggle,’ or to tell the...

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Eton College is the latest in a series of schools to crack down on mobile phone use among their pupils. Last year, the £39,000-a-year Brighton College started forcing students to hand in their mobile phones at the beginning of each day in an effort to wean them off their “addiction” to technology. Students in year seven, eight and nine are now required to hand in their mobile phones at the beginning of the day to teachers who will lock it away, ready for collection when they...

Does using models really make economics a science?​ The model has more and more become the message in modern mainstream economics. Formal models are said to help achieve ‘clarity’ and ‘consistency.’ Dani Rodrik — just to take one prominent example — even​ says, in his Economics Rules, that “models make economics a science.” Economics is more than any other social science model-oriented. There are many reasons for this — the history of the discipline, having...

Paul Romer — a flamboyant and hot-headed economist L’Américain Paul Romer, qui s’est vu décerner lundi le prestigieux prix Nobel d’économie aux côtés d’un de ses compatriotes William Nordhaus, est un économiste flamboyant à la carrière mouvementée, connu pour ses travaux mesurant la part de l’innovation dans la croissance. A 62 ans, il est actuellement professeur à l’Université de New York … Il avait quitté en octobre 2016 le monde universitaire pour...

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Paul Romer’s endogenous growth theory — a very short introduction   Advertisements

The British school system​ — damaging working-class children While on the surface middle and working class children appear to be receiving the same comprehensive education, in some​e cases while attending the same schools, the entrenchment of policies of choice and excessive testing, assessment, sorting and sifting mean that they are increasingly educated apart as they move through the school system. The divide in English education is not just between...