Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Perhaps this is the time for a counter-reformation

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Just to review where we stand. Charter schools But for all their support and cultural cachet, the majority of the 5,000 or so charter scho...
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Incentive Pay

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In a recent opinion piece on performance pay by Robin Chait and Ulrich Boser, the following claim is made: The problem with our nation'...

Hey, Rocky! Watch me pull an activist ruling out of this hat...

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Friends and long-time readers of OE know I'm a sucker for the bizarre extended analogy and Barry Friedman and Dahlia Lithwick have pulle...
Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Buzzwords! Buzzwords! Buzzwords!-- Coping with the Vanderbilt study

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From the Washington Post : The study was conducted by the National Center on Performance Incentives at Vanderbilt. The center, wh...

Brief quote from EPI

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I have a feeling I'm going to be referring to this a lot: For a variety of reasons, analyses of VAM [Value Added Modeling] results have...

An experiment in blogging -- the conclusion

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When assessing a statement, sometimes it's useful to rephrase it in a more general way and see how well it holds up. I tried that with a...

Cost of Higher Education

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I thought that I would put some number onto Mark's previous post . According to this website , the median debt for a four year college ...

Compensation and Career Paths

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The economics of labor is complicated (yeah, I know... "And water is moist," but bear with me here). When you try to approach labo...
Monday, October 4, 2010

Contracts and compensation

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Another relevant point on the economics of labor. This time from Felix Salmon (via guess who ): If I were Levin, I’d want a three-year cont...

“Do your job. Keep employed. Don’t come up with a new idea.”

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While we're on the subject of labor , take a look at this article from Robert J. Shiller (via Thoma , of course). It provides excellent...
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The cusp of coolness

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One of the most popular genres of science writing since at least the age of Edison has been the "cusp of coolness" story, where th...

The Death Arthur Penn and the definition of the Golden Age of Television

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(Thought I'd take a break and do some arts and culture blogging. Hell, it's a Sunday.) Arthur Penn , the stage, television and motio...
Sunday, October 3, 2010

An experiment in blogging

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This will just take a minute of your time. What follows is a passage from a popular blog, rewritten slightly to make it more general but oth...
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Saturday, October 2, 2010

Being clear about what the incentives are

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Brad Delong discusses the likely result of removing restrictions on insider trading: If managers free to engage in insider trading know tha...
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Mommy, where do numbers come from?

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One of the nice things about the internet is that, if you look hard enough, you can find people addressing important questions about where s...