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Bilingualism and early child development: very interesting brand-new research in PNAS (institutional or individual subscription needed, else only abstract is free). And yes, bilingualism clearly pays off, if you were wondering.
New England clam chowder
My whereabouts this week: I’ll be presenting two papers (and will do my best not to miss a dozen other very interesting presentations) at this year’s SOciety of Labor Economists meeting, in Boston, one of my favourite (& frequent) US destinations.
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This Science piece on leverage being “the root of all financial turmoil” is interesting (will follow up on it), though a). I doubt leverage is “the” (only) root of the problem; b).
John Bates Clark Medal ’09
Congratulations to this year’s winner, Emmanuel Saez!
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Test your Macroeconomics knowledge
…by doing this NYTimes 18 multiple-choice questions quiz (via Greg Mankiw).
This is obviously piece of cake if you did any (ok: any decent) introductory Economics courses (if you did not do any Econ but read frequently the economic news and understand some basics, you should still be able to answer correctly at least 10 of the 18 questions– my own approximation here), but I still like the way they structured the multiple choices: I actually had to stay more than a few seconds for some of the questions :-).
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