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Claude Sonnet 5 charges \$2.00 per million fresh input tokens.

When you change an R package, CRAN expects you to run reverse dependency checks: build every package that depends on yours and see what breaks.

A few days ago I was looking at Wirecutter's best-fan guide.

One of the quieter successes of post-Independence India is that the gender gap in education has closed.

Chaturvedi, Das, and Mahajan (2024) argue that female reservation in the 2015 Gram Panchayat elections raised household toilet provision more in villages with a higher Muslim share.

Asher, Jha, Novosad, Adukia, and Tan report that Muslim and Scheduled Caste segregation in India is "only slightly lower than Black-White segregation in the U.S."

The previous post described a conservative record-linkage pipeline: accept only high-confidence matches, flag ambiguous cases, and leave the rest unmatched.

Record linkage is the problem of identifying the same entity across two or more tables that lack a shared unique identifier.

Asher, Jha, Novosad, Adukia, and Tan's NBER working paper is a major descriptive contribution.

The effect of a treatment on an outcome depends on three things: the kind of treatment, the kind of person receiving it, and the context in which it is delivered.

Suppose you run a randomized experiment with imperfect compliance.

Across 450 parent-child entries drawn from 32 epics and 23 civilizations, 85% of children are sons. 63% of couples have zero daughters, while only 6% have zero sons.

Shuffle your XGBoost training data and you can get a different model.

In 152 of 203 countries with available data, more women than men are enrolled in tertiary education.

In a trust game, the first mover has an endowment and chooses how much to send to the second mover.