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The economics of tips

Tipping is large and growing, but we know little about its consequences for workers and firms. We link point-of-sale and payroll records at 20,000 U.S. firms, which lets us observe…

Monday assorted links

1. Why is it now so common to be asked about your food allergies? (GPT Pro answer) 2. Training for alignment, applies principal-agent theory. 3. Do people offload empathy when…

Friday assorted links

1. Dwarkesh interviews Robert Caro (!). 2. New and pretty brutal results on CTE and football. 3. Interview with Dan Wang. 4. Updated version of the Saez-Zucman audit.  Contestable and…

Sunday assorted links

1. Jakob Davidsen, The Individual and the Entire Tissue (song cycle).  It is good. 2. The Oilers Entertainment Group pushed prices too high and here is what happened. 3. The…