There’s no denying that our bodies deteriorate as we age. But here’s one fact in which those in their golden years may take comfort. If you live long enough, your odds of developing certain cancers decline rather than increase as a function of age.
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Impressions of Russia
My wife and I spent last week in Russia, giving some lectures at the New Economic School and the International College of Economics and Finance and touring Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Here are some of the things I saw that surprised me.
2014 Econbrowser NCAA tournament challenge winner
Congratulations to James Gualtieri, winner of the world famous Econbrowser NCAA tournament challenge.
Graphs of key economic trends
Here are some graphs of economic data that illustrate some interesting trends.
2014 Econbrowser NCAA tournament challenge
It may be snowing back east, but March Madness has arrived just the same. Time to invite everyone to test your uncanny ability to predict the outcome of the U.S. college mens’ basketball tournament. Field seems particularly wide open this year. If you want to participate, go to the Econbrowser group at ESPN, do some minor registering to create a free ESPN account if you haven’t used that site before, and fill in your bracket with who you think might be the winners of each game. Just be sure you complete your predictions before Thursday, because the Econbrowser group does not allow changes in your bracket after the round of 65 begins on Thursday.
Use of logarithms in economics
Why do economists always want to take the natural logarithm of everything? Here’s the answer,if you don’t mind looking at a few equations and graphs.
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Econbrowser now on WordPress
We have migrated our blog-management system over to WordPress, which will give Econbrowser a slightly different look and help us keep up better with improving technology. For example, by clicking on the appropriate icon that you’ll now find at the end of each post, you can instantly communicate anything you find of interest through other social media such as Facebook and Twitter. Please let us know if you have trouble with any old links, encounter any problems with the new system or have other suggestions.
Thanks to my tech-savvy daughter for helping us to make the switch. You can learn about her company at AdditiveAnalytics.com.
Changes coming for Econbrowser
We will be making some exciting changes to Econbrowser, moving to a new system for managing posts and comments. In preparation for the transition, we have temporarily closed all comments, and at some point during this weekend the complete site may be unavailable. We hope to have a new and better system completely functioning by the end of the weekend, and apologize for the temporary inconvenience.
On R-squared and economic prediction
Recently I’ve heard a number of otherwise intelligent people assess an economic hypothesis based on the R2 of an estimated regression. I’d like to point out why that can often be very misleading.
Links for 2014-01-19
Quick links to a few items I found of interest.