I'm a builder and writer chasing questions I can't let go of — usually until the data answers them. For years they were about Mongolia; now they're about America too, at American Metrics .
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See all posts- Mongolian Meat Prices, Seven Years LaterIn 2019 I wrote about Mongolia's meat prices and made some predictions. Seven years of new data later, let's see what happened.
- Are Mongolian Courts Biased? 75,000 Criminal Cases Say Mostly NoI analyzed every criminal court decision on Mongolia's judicial database. Employment status, not gender, is the biggest demographic predictor of sentence severity.
- Do families with more children make less money?Using Mongolia's Household Socioeconomic Survey to examine the relationship between number of children and household income.
- 2021 Wrap-Up: Are Mongolians richer today than in 2011?Comparing Mongolian household income brackets and inflation-adjusted wages over 9 years to see if economic progress is real.
- Which grocery store in Ulaanbaatar is cheapest?Analyzing weekly price data from Mongolia's National Statistics Office to compare grocery prices across Ulaanbaatar's markets and supermarkets.
- What happens if you pay people to get married?Mongolia's 2006-2009 cash incentive for marriage tripled the marriage rate, and years later caused a clear spike in divorces.
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