Jacob Christensen

Zeriously, when you look at the evidenze, how could you doubt it?

HT: BoingBoing.

Give a man enough coffee and he’s capable of anything.

Malcolm Gladwell, via Brad deLong.

Apparently, Barack Obama isn’t a coffee drinker by the way. No latte-sipping revolutions here

The idea was that my blog posts should be noted in twitter. Not that all of my (admitted: Not too many) tweets should appear here.

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• Hanuschek – Woessmann: Does Educational Tracking Affect Performance and Inequality? Differences-in-Differences; Evidence across Countries
  The results suggest that early tracking increases educational inequality. While less clear, there is also a tendency for early tracking to reduce mean performance. Therefore, there does not appear to be any equity-efficiency trade-off.
  (tags: education research publicpolicy politicalscience)
• Erika Lindahl – Empirical studies of public policies within the primary school and the sickness insurance
  Essay 4 (with Per Johansson) evaluates a multidisciplinary collaboration programme with the aim to prevent long-term sickness. … Essay 5 (with Per Johansson) evaluates a policy to call sick-listed indi-viduals without permanent employment to information meetings about the rights and duties associated with the sickness insurance system.
  (tags: sweden socialinsurance sicknessinsurance publicpolicy economics research)