Robert Ritz
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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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  • Mongolian Meat Prices, Seven Years Later
    In 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 No
    I 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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