Assorted Links

1. Is It Better to Buy or Rent? (via Patrik)
   
   
2. Neil Smith (the father of the Gentrification theory)  has passed away.
   
   
3. New survey paper on what economists know about “brain drain”/“brain gain”). via MR
   
   
4. The New Science of Viral Ads by Thales S. Teixeira (Harvard)
   
   
5. Germans are five times more likely than Americans to travel by mass transport (the paper is here)
   
   
6. Book: The Demography of Health and Healthcare
   
   
7. The demographic transition may be the result of a mismatch between ancient psychology and the modern world (via @blqueiroz)
   
   
8. Call for Abstracts: 9th International Space Syntax Symposium
   
   
9. Car use is peaking in the rich world

[image credit: The Economist]