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The Generation That Refuses to Crawl

On 20 July, thousands of young people attempted to march from Jantar Mantar to Parliament. They carried placards, shouted ...
Tech Times

Brain-Like Learning Rule Cracks Convolutional Networks: Sakana AI Measures the Biology Tax

Biologically plausible learning now reaches 96.7% on MNIST and 61.7% on CIFAR-10 without backpropagation, as Sakana AI ...
National Bureau of Economic Research

Changing Opportunity: Sociological Mechanisms Underlying Growing Class Gaps and Shrinking Race Gaps in Economic Mobility

We show that intergenerational mobility changed rapidly by race and class in recent decades in the U.S. and study the causal mechanisms underlying those changes. Between the 1978 and 1992 birth ...
National Bureau of Economic Research

Class Rank and Long-Run Outcomes

This paper considers an unavoidable feature of the school environment, class rank. What are the long-run effects of a student’s ordinal rank in elementary school? Using administrative data on all ...