Tuesday's Assorted Links

Home insurance, legal weed, solar panel subsidies, turkey prices, and school start times

I grabbed this graph from the paper mentioned in link #5. It shows the distribution of grades across courses based on when the start time was. The green (solid) line was the grades for later start times, which shows that the average grade was higher than the other the earlier start times.

Hi, y’all! Here are 5 stories I learned about this week that I think you’ll enjoy!

1. Insurance companies are hesitant to insure Florida homes, threatening home sales, mortgages, and construction [The New York Times | The Daily Podcast]

2. Podcast: Legalizing marijuana hasn’t eliminated the black market [Vox Explained]

3. Considering installing solar panels to cash in on a rebate? Your non-solar neighbors may be less likely to buy green power if you do it [The Conversation]

4. Turkey prices are 73% higher than last year and might stay that way through Thanksgiving [CNBC]

5. Starting the school day 50 minutes later has the same positive impact as raising teacher quality by one standard deviation [American Economic Journal: Economic Policy]

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Yesterday I summarized new research out of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York that looked at how remote workers allocated their time saved from not having to commute:

What Would You Do Differently if You Didn’t Have a Commute?

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Week 42 is over and I checked in my 42nd book for the year. I finally finished up Betty by Tiffany McDaniel. I try to squeeze popular fiction into my reading lists so that I don’t get burned out on economics and history books. This one was really highly rated on Goodreads, but I didn’t really enjoy the overall writing style. There were some interesting parts to the book, but I prefer fiction that includes some sort of journey or mystery. To me, this was more of “just a story.”