Assorted links

1. Caroline Hoxby wins a Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award.

2. The decline in the Medicare hospital readmission rate.

3. David Leonhardt and Justin Wolfers team up, with others too.

4. Is there a researcher purge at the Minneapolis Fed?

5. How to achieve cultural immersion.

6. El Universal commentary on Average is Over and the new service sector jobs (in Spanish).

7. How “Big Data” is (are?) changing hiring and firing.