Undergraduate Economics Should Focus on Revealed Preference Logic
In December 2016, I wrote a short Amazon book on the economics of revealed preference. I wrote this book after teaching "Econ 101" at USC.
A Quick Summary of My Published Work in 2017
Now that 2017 is wrapping up it might interest some people to hear why I choose to work on some research questions. For each paper I published in 2017, I offer a few "big picture" comments to explain what questions motivated the research.
2017 Articles
Jerch, Rhiannon & Kahn, Matthew E.
Optimistic Findings about California Air Pollution Trends During the Fire Season
The recent Los Angeles fires have been quite scary. When I'm scared, I start to run new regressions. I take daily PM2.5 air pollution data from the EPA and keep the subset of observations for the following states; California, Arizona and Nevada. I use data from the years 2000 to 2017.
The PHD Economics Cohort from 1993
The Repec competition continues. I do not believe that Martin Browning is part of our cohort.
1993
Repec has informed me that my rankings "peers" are:
Similarly ranked authors
These peers are ranked around you and are listed in random order: Gert G.
College Admissions at Elite Schools and the $500,000 Endowment Per Student Cutoff
Under the pending Trump Tax Plan, Universities whose endowments are above $500,000 per student will face an endowment income tax of 1% a year. A $7 billion dollar school would pay roughly $10 million dollars in cash (that's a lot of Assistant professors slots).
How "Inelastic" is the Demand to Live in California?
Given California's high taxes on those who are well paid, such individuals keep 45% of each dollar they earn. If such a person lived in Texas, he might keep 60% of each dollar earned. President Trump's new tax proposal will further raise the tax price of living in California.
