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  1. Issue · Sep 27, 2026

    The Limited Efficacy of Social Media Bans for Teens (opens the original)

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    The Jonathan Haidt-pilled among us shouldn’t celebrate Australia’s social media ban for teens just yet.New evidence suggests that the ban has neither gotten teens off social media nor changed the culture around its use.The banimposed few practical costs on teenagers who wanted to continue using social media: 75 percent described circumventing the restrictions as

  2. Issue · Sep 17, 2026

    Banning Minors’ Access to Adult Websites (opens the original)

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    Does banning a good or service substantially reduce its consumption? Or does it mainly drive the market underground or to substitute products?Research on banning minors from adult websites suggests the latter. The researchers looked atindividual-level browsing data from approximately 550,000 US desktop and mobile internet users between 2022 and 2024. … [The] findings reveal that age-verification l

  3. Issue · Sep 12, 2026

    Does Bank Consolidation Harm Customers? (opens the original)

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    Antitrust policy presents a challenge for both libertarians and policymakers. On the one hand, competitive markets are good, which might suggest policy should limit firm mergers. On the other hand, mergers can have beneficial effects (such as economies of scale and scope, or disciplining unproductive firms), so broad opposition to mergers is likely counterproductive.New research on bank consolidation offers evidence on this tradeoff. Contrary to the beliefthat bank mergers reduce competition, in

  4. Issue · Sep 4, 2026

    High-Skilled Immigration Improves Economic Performance (opens the original)

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    Pro-natalists believe that falling birthrates are priming countries for economic collapse.This view is probably wrong, but in any case the obvious response is expanded immigration.Using data from 38 OECD countries, new research finds thatgrowth in native-born populations has slowed substantially, while i

  5. Issue · Sep 1, 2026

    Some Negatives of Inheritance Taxes (opens the original)

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    I have long argued against the estate tax and other inheritance tax policies. New evidence from Sweden, which abolished its gift and inheritance tax in 2005, illustrates the harmful nature of these taxes.Thefindings show that abolishing the tax increased the profitability, net sales, asset value, and productivity of private firms. … The reform also improved firms’ financial health by increasing current assets … and shareholdersR

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