On my reading list: Selected papers

Some collected readings for my list. 


Julian Reiss. The Methodology of Positive Economics: Reflections on the Milton Friedman Legacy, ed. Uskali Mäki. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,  Link.

Pablo D. Fajgelbaum, Pinelopi K. Goldberg, Patrick J. Kennedy and Amit K. Khandelwal. The Return to Protectionism. Link.

Gilbert Cette, Lorraine Koehl, Thomas Philippon. Labor Shares in Some Advanced Economies. Link.

Grace Weishi Gu, Eswar Prasad. New Evidence on Cyclical Variation in Labor Costs in the U.S. Link.

Robert J. Gordon. Friedman and Phelps on the Phillips Curve Viewed from a Half Century's Perspective. Link. 

Andrew B. Hall, Jesse Yoder. Does Homeownership Influence Political Behavior? Evidence from Administrative Data. Link.

Anna Maria Mayda, Giovanni Peri, Walter Steingress. The Political Impact of Immigration: Evidence from the United States. Link.

Patrick Bajari, Victor Chernozhukov, Ali Hortaçsu, Junichi Suzuki. The Impact of Big Data on Firm Performance: An Empirical Investigation. Link. 

Jared Walczak, Tax Trends at the Dawn of 2020. Tax Foundation. Link.

David Neumark, Peter Shirley. The Long-Run Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit on Women's Earnings. Link.

David Autor, David Dorn, Lawrence F. Katz, Christina Patterson, John Van Reenen. Concentrating on the Fall of the Labor Share. Link.

David Autor, David Dorn, Lawrence F. Katz, Christina Patterson, John Van Reenen. The Fall of the Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms. Link.

Murray Rothbard. Robert Nozick and the Immaculate Conception of the State. Link.

Austan Goolsbee. Public Policy in an AI Economy. NBER. Link. 

Dani Rodrik. What Do Trade Agreements Really Do? Link. 

The politics of mate choice

From John R. Alford, Peter K Hateme, John R. Hibbing, Nicholas G. Martin, Lindon J. Eaves

Abstract: 

Recent research has found a surprising degree of homogeneity in the personal political communication network of individuals but this work has focused largely on the tendency to sort into likeminded social, workplace, and residential political contexts. We extend this line of research into one of the most fundamental and consequential of political interactions—that between sexual mates. Using data on thousands of spouse pairs in the United States, we investigate the degree of concordance among mates on a variety of traits. Our findings show that physical and personality traits display only weakly positive and frequently insignificant correlations across spouses. Conversely, political attitudes display interspousal correlations that are among the strongest of all social and biometric traits. Further, it appears the political similarity of spouses derives in part from initial mate choice rather than persuasion and accommodation over the life of the relationship.