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Truck crashes result in 160,000 nonfatal injuries and 6,000 fatalities every year in the US.
Hour tracking devices - ELDs - were mandated in 2012, aiming to make trucking safer by stopping truckers driving long hours (by stopping falsification of paper records). Did they?
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“The good news is we have a thick literature on the topic at this point.”
The thick literature:
The idea that "popular narrative" on minimum wages "turns out to be wrong" because it's not paid attention to "replication" is just wrong.
There are tons of replications in minimum wage research. And not just replication, but new research that extends the analysis. Just because a one team wants to critique a paper doesn't make it a "replication failure."
The good news is we have a thick literature on the topic at this point.
And that body of research strongly shows that to date, minimum wages have raised wages without causing much change in employment.
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It's not for everyone, but having kids in grad school has been an overwhelming net positive for me. Comes with obvious challenges (less work/sleep time, the lows are low, etc.), but here are just a few of the ways my two kiddos have made me a better researcher and person:
For those who are interested in my work, but don't have the training or inclination to read a pretty technical paper, I'm putting out an explainer series. Check out the newest installment here, on descriptive time series with genealogical data: godbecametheglass.substack.c…
In 1077, the Holy Roman Emperor stood barefoot in the snow, begging the pope to lift his excommunication. Why did W. Europe's most heavily armed men submit to the mostly unarmed church? New paper: marriage law gave the church its supreme legal jursidiction. 🧵
Reading: Western law wasn't the strong imposing their will, and it wasn't a social contract. Elites opted into third-party adjudication because marriage strategies made private force too risky. Law emerged a la Hume and Hayek: spontaneously.
Check out the paper here! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
And the replication: github.com/teganlt/medieval-…









