Wednesday assorted links by Tyler Cowen August 30, 2023 at 2:27 pm 1. “We show that the gender wage gap [at public universities] is narrowing. It declined by more than 50% over the course of our data panel to the point where by 2021, it is no longer detectable at conventional levels of statistical significance.” 2. Jetelina and Wallace-Wells on the pandemic. 3. Do non-socially-connected research papers have to be of higher quality to get published in good journals? 4. The culture that is Fairfax County playground regulation. 5. Why Sweden had low excess mortality. 6. New newsletter — Statecraft — on how policymakers actually get things done.