David Brady
@davebrady72
Public policy professor, Price School USC @priceschool.usc.edu, father, poverty/social policy/racial inequality/immigration/policymakers, posts do not speak for employer,
From my attempt to take this non-serious argument seriously: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
It’s always been baffling to me that Harvard sociologists constructed a story that they were constrained from advancing culture of poverty arguments. And somehow courageous to bring culture back….
Nice reminder from Richard Feynman of some of the benefits of teaching.
RFP: The Historical Political Economy of Taxation and Regulation. Conference and journal special issue opportunity!
Can’t help contrasting the decency of this guy being interviewed by Reggie at All Star game versus current occupant of White House.
Here’s my new Substack post about the value of being curious about new fields and literatures. open.substack.com/pub/davebrad...
“A Pilot Fired Over Kristi Noem’s Missing Blanket and the Constant Chaos Inside DHS” This Noem & Lewandoski story in the *Wall Street Journal* is a wild ride.
I wrote a Substack post about the latest set of academics tied to Epstein: open.substack.com/pub/davebrad...
Thrilled to receive Josh Seim’s new book THE WELFARE ASSEMBLY LINE. This is the BEST book on the administration and delivery of welfare programs I’ve read in years. Totally changed how I think we should think about the delivery of social services. www.ucpress.edu/books/the-we...
We’d like to believe that effort matters to what we attain in life. In fact our belief in meritocracy depends on that. But what if how much effort people spend itself depends on your social background? “The Social Origins of Effort: How Incentives Reduce Socioeconomic Disparities among Children”
Homicides fell to 230 in LA last year. Fewest killings in a year since 1966 & lowest per capita homicide rate since 1959. Striking no credit is given to Mayor Bass….
Giving talk to European Social Policy Emeriti Forum on recent U.S. social policy. I'm proud of title :): "THE ABSOLUTELY BEST SOCIAL POLICY REFORMS IN THE HISTORY OF THE ENTIRE WORLD: Everyone is Saying Trump is Incredible, People Are Gonna Be Blown Away About How Good His Social Policy Will Be"
It’s worth just looking at the agricultural districts on your Map on your iPhone. It’s like we’re painting the desert green:
Interesting Substack, but especially fascinated by the disciplinary patterns in this figure: open.substack.com/pub/fantasti...
That the Colorado River negotiations have grown urgent is clear, as @ianjames.bsky.social reports: www.latimes.com/environment/... But I always feel best way to think about this issue is the figure James reported on in 2024.
Really excited to see Tom Mueller’s new book _The Case for Rural America_. uncpress.org/978146969151... uncpress-us-new.imgix.net/covers/97814...
How many MPA-online programs start the programs with an on campus residency… with a marching band?!?
There are really great faculty and staff in lots of programs. And then there are the forces to be reckoned with that are the @priceschool.usc.edu Masters of Public Administration Online Program faculty and staff.
One of the intellectually richest seminar series I’ve attended is the Political Institutions and Political Economy (PIPE) Collaborative organized by my colleague Jeff Jenkins @priceschool.usc.edu. The first event of the year is TODAY at noon in VPD 302. Join us!
Our latest paper on the subject finds a ton of zeros too. This paper was particularly hard to publish. Why don’t we see papers on the BIAS of reviewers committed to a failing hypothesis against all evidence?
How can anyone look at this plot and say the story is not about zero. Good grief, who cares if you’ve got a positive or negative coefficient of they’re almost all not different than zero. Funny the authors acknowledge me on the front page.