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Italian rail company Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane is developing a major plan for high-speed rail travel to six major European cities, including Amsterdam.
As we approach the year’s end, the Links are going on a hiatus, until the first or second week of January—I’m heading up to Northumberland next week to have a Christmas in the wilds, with grandparent-childcare, vast amounts of wine and port and several books to take advantage of the familial support.
Please join us in our London office for a conversation and afternoon tea with Dr. Rukmini Banerji, CEO, Pratham Education Foundation. Rukmini has spent over two decades studying education gaps in India. As a pioneer of ASER – an annual household survey of more than half a million families – Rukmini was one of the first to shed light on and draw attention to low levels of learning in India.
We’re losing legends at a frankly alarming rate: one week after I lamented the loss of Diana Kennedy, we open by lamenting the loss of Bill Russell. If you’re a basketball fan, Russell is to Jordan and LeBron what Thanos was to Loki: the big bad. We argue about whether LeBron (10 finals, 4 wins) or Michael Jordan (6 finals, 6 wins) was a better player; while in the background, this guy looms menacingly—13 seasons as a professional, 12 times in the finals, 11 times the winner.
This week's links include Guido Imbens and Josh Angrist on co-authoring, Peter Hull on his path to applied econometrics work, the illusion of robustness checks, and more...