Ben Southwood

@bswud

Head of Research at . Consequentialist, reductionist, marginalist & formalist. Care about meaning, food, music & buildings.

Westminster / Camberwell
Joined June 2012

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  1. Post-dinner

  2. Dinner

  3. Meta-analysis: men respond more to rewards, women respond more to punishment, men slightly better self-control

  4. Women are more risk-averse, more socially virtuous and more competition-averse than men (2009 JEL meta-analysis)

  5. Taylor Swift pays the Danegeld

  6. Paper now published in the Review of Economics and Statistics

  7. Extra 10 days of Swedish schooling -> 0.01sd better result in crystallised intelligence, but no difference in fluid

  8. Involving risk managers in loan decisions leads to 50% lower default rates

  9. Classic Paul Cheshire & Christian Hilber paper there

  10. UK regulations designed to reduce housing vacancies actually increase them by tightening restrictions on development

  11. In Chicago when rents rise, developers build upwards (height elasticity of land prices: 0.3-0.45)

  12. retweeted

    Out of these '8 reasons you should care about online privacy', I count only 1 (and a 1/2) being actual reasons:

  13. Chefs buy own-brand and pharmacists buy generic

  14. Now published in QJE

    Translated from Haitian by

  15. Wroclaw/Breslau in the 1890s

  16. And we shouldn't simply move towards believing it's mutable because it would be more convenient for our political conclusions

  17. Your sexuality doesn't feel like a choice. Whether it comes from social influences or randomness or genetics it feels fixed & unchosen

  18. So many unnecessary references to Nazis. Also false dichotomy between genetic and fixed. Non-genetic can be fixed

  19. You can buy 1200 teab'gs for £19.99!

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