Thursday assorted links

1. Why South Koreans don’t have more children.  And a Twitter thread on the same topic.

2. Pete Boettke on why we should still read Adam Smith.

3. When cars hit pedestrians, who is blamed more?

4. Ghost donors.  Important.  But will this become a big story somewhere?

5. Interview with Orley Ashenfelter, who is retiring after fifty years of teaching.

6. Nabeel on synthetic data.

7. “Disney adults” are a thing.

8. “Biden Calls Chinese Electric Vehicles a Security Threat.” (NYT)