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Sandra Loayza Guzman

Feb 5, 2022

Does immigration affect wages and unemployment? A case study of Miami

Inspired by their 2019 book Good Economics for Hard Times, I decided to cover here one of the academic papers that Abhijit Banerjee and...

Theodore Ntounias

Feb 5, 2022

Math, maps, and fairness; ensemble methods to quantify political gerrymandering

Electoral maps in the United States are re-drawn at a state level every ten years, based on a set of ambiguously defined criteria that...