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Andrew Gelman:

Overall, I’d say that, if anything, social scientists perhaps don’t spend enough time re-confirming the definitive statements. There’s a real push toward novelty, to the extent that maybe we don’t have enough “gold standards” of well-established social patterns.

More from Gelman and Nicholas Christakis.

Five links

Elise Gould, Hilary Wething, Natalie Sabadish, and Nicholas Finio, “What Families Need to Get By,” Economic Policy Institute

Michael Greenstone, Adam Looney, Jeremy Patashnik, and Muxin Yu, “Thirteen Economic Facts about Social Mobility and the Role of Education,” Hamilton Project

Ive Marx, Lina Salanauskaite, and Gerlinde Verbist, “The Paradox of Redistribution Revisited”

James Plunkett and Alex Hurrell, “The Future of the UK National Minimum Wage and Low-Pay Commission,” Resolution Foundation

Isabel Sawhill and Quentin Karpilow, “Strategies for Assisting Low-Income Families,” Brookings Institution