Rotundus.com

Women's anticipation of the employment effects of motherhood: Evidence and implications

"If women are not fully anticipating the employment effects of motherhood, we would expect that the birth of the first child serves as an information shock, causing them to update their beliefs regarding their ability to maintain both family and work commitments. Consistent with this idea, we find that women become more traditional in their attitudes about gender roles regarding work and family after the birth of their first child. ... Interestingly, college-educated women appear most caught off-guard by motherhood, as they experience a larger ‘anti-work’ shift in their views than non-college-educated women."

Nearly half the world’s kids are exposed to dangerous levels of lead

"Flint became the symbol of catastrophic lead exposure in the United States. The breakdown of a long-neglected system was so terrible that it led to headlines for months and even became an issue in the 2016 presidential election. Yet children in low- and middle-income countries are, per this estimate, 10 times likelier to have high blood lead levels than children in Flint were at the height of the city’s crisis."

Black Ownership Matters: Does Revealing Race Increase Demand For Minority-Owned Businesses?

Wonder how this has shifted (and continues to shift) over time: "we investigate the impact of a new feature on a large online platform that made the race of a set of Black business owners salient to customers. We find that this feature substantially increased demand for Black-owned businesses - in the form of more calls to the restaurant, more delivery orders, and - using cell phone data from a different platform - more in person visits to the restaurant. New customers to Black-owned businesses were more likely to be White customers - suggesting demand among White restaurant goers for Black-owned businesses."

Apparently I've been watching a lot of Youtube lately, and one of the things that I'd suggest perhaps worth watching is this by Musa Al-Gharbi as Heterodox Academy has gotten back to podcasting again:

(If you prefer a platform other than Youtube, you can find the links here). It's not the first time he's been discussed here but definitely worth giving a listen I think.

It's not short, but I rather enjoyed this interview with Mark Andreessen:

Found this excerpted here:

The highest form that civilization can reach is a seamless web of deserved trust. Not much procedure, just totally reliable people correctly trusting one another.

That’s the way an operating room works at the Mayo Clinic. If a bunch of lawyers were to introduce a lot of process, the patients would all die.

So never forget, when you’re a lawyer, that you may be rewarded for selling this stuff, but you don’t have to buy it. In your own life, what you want is a seamless web of deserved trust. And if your proposed marriage contract has forty-seven pages, my suggestion is you not enter.

There are often times where it's pointed out that people don't trust and, most frequently, that lack of trust is at least somewhat deserved and unsurprising.