📈Job market paper📉 Excited to finally share my JMP! I study whether and why policy choices are stubbornly persistent. Example: Oregon has an income tax, but not Washington—seemingly because of nearly century-old choices. Is this typical? Read the paper: www.zachfreitasgroff.com/FreitasGroff...

That sounds really interesting and timely. As a German I have a huge reluctance towards referendums (referendi?). Brexit has not exactly improved my regard for these tools…

See the Twitter thread here for a social-media-style summary: x.com/zdgroff/stat...