Marginal REVOLUTION

Whether dads do their fair share of the housework appears to have no effect on fertility.

1. Tax land more heavily than structures .

1. African use of Chinese AI (NYT). And what happened to Talenti gelato? (NYT) And the NIMBY brutalists who live in the Barbican (NYT).

I was on the British CapX Podcast talking about the Equality Act, riffing off my two posts Equality Act 2010 and The Apples and Oranges Tribunal. One thing I discussed in the podcast which I haven't blogged on is the amazing Birmingham dustbin dispute. In

Brands are already paying to influence what chatbots say about them

1. African use of Chinese AI (NYT). And what happened to Talenti gelato? (NYT) And the NIMBY brutalists who live in the Barbican (NYT).

Over the past 20 years, Talenti has changed from a small, independent brand to a piece of a corporate conglomerate. Has that affected its quality?

Max Tabarrok's paper on the Endangered Species Act and housing (WP) has just been published in the Journal of Public Economics! It's a clever paper: Max observed that the moment an animal is put on the endangered species list, developers face enhanced com

Suppose that apples sell for more than oranges and Parliament in it's wisdom decides that, at last, apples and oranges must be compared. Not by shoppers - shoppers are biased, they merely reveal what they are willing to pay - but by a tribunal, which will

To study whether and how academics respond to political pressure, we exploit a natural experiment: the publication in early 2025 of a "blacklist" of words flagged by the U.S. government. We find that the release of this list led to a sharp reduction in th