Thursday assorted links

1. How good are American roads?

2. Civil War death toll higher than had been thought (NYT).

3. The reason a minimum wage struggles to deliver efficiency gains is that with realistic firm productivity dispersion, a minimum wage that
eliminates monopsony power at one firm causes severe rationing at another.”

4. The size of the new BYD factory.

5. “COVID caused a lot of cardiac deaths that stopped rising and, indeed, started declining, once vaccines came into the picture.“