People may want to increase fertility for different reasons.| wyclif.substack.com
Why I'm still not a polygenic score nihilist| Wyclif's Dust
Here is a good, very comprehensive introduction by Scott Alexander to the debate about missing heritability. This post is much shorter and is going to just focus on one aspect — the value of polygenic scores.| Wyclif's Dust
I haven’t fitted this into the main data posts, but we can also divide up the European Values Survey data by birth cohort.| Wyclif's Dust
Religion, work and attitudes| Wyclif's Dust
This conflict can easily spill beyond economics into something worse| Wyclif's Dust
We have developed the collective habit of diagnosing ourselves and those around us with mental health disorders.| Wyclif's Dust
Lying experiments are well-known in behavioural economics.| Wyclif's Dust
Art changes your life while leaving it the same...| Wyclif's Dust
Putting the horror of the Democratic and Republican parties under a game theory lens| wyclif.substack.com
A guy dropped in. With his round face and long overcoat, he gave the impression of two children, one standing on the other’s shoulders, who have teamed up so as to gain admission to an age-restricted movie. In his conversation, he always seemed to be skating over an abyss; he once told me “As our bodies get older, did you know they are actually cooking?”| wyclif.substack.com
People today are fighting the temptations of a new economy.| wyclif.substack.com
(Deep breath) OK, new working paper is out. If I seem excited, I’ve been planning this since 2007….| wyclif.substack.com
To parents besieged by expert advice, a new scientific idea offers relief: it’s no big deal how you raise your children....| wyclif.substack.com
Two friends spend an ordinary evening at the pub. But who is their companion?| wyclif.substack.com
Here’s an interesting argument: immigration destroys social solidarity, and that’s a good thing. It’s good because social solidarity supports welfare institutions, which are dyfunctional and undermine the dynamic market economy.| wyclif.substack.com
Thinking about liberalism after two weeks of war in Ukraine| wyclif.substack.com
Game theory is technical, but these simple ideas contain 90% of the insights.| wyclif.substack.com
All just data journalists with pretensions| wyclif.substack.com
Data on marriage and family| wyclif.substack.com
The first of three posts about my new paper with Abdel Abdellaoui| wyclif.substack.com
After 4 years, I’m adding a paid option to this newsletter.| wyclif.substack.com
Is it OK to smack, spank or physically punish your children? Billions of parents have a deep interest in this question. But answering it is very difficult, because it comes with horrible methodological problems. Obviously, there is a huge problem of reverse causality. Suppose children who are regularly spanked are naughtier. Did the punishment make the kids worse? Or did the bad behaviour get them spanked?| wyclif.substack.com
Someone is wrong on the internet....| wyclif.substack.com
God, what a horrible fortnight.| wyclif.substack.com
A work in progress, a.k.a. a cry for help| wyclif.substack.com
William Topaz McGonagall achieved fame as soon as his “Poetic Gems” were published in 1879, as the worst poet in the English language.| wyclif.substack.com
Free societies need institutions which do one job| wyclif.substack.com
