“I don’t usually ‘go after’ news stories and headlines but this one is such a bad mistake, and it so affected my Twitter feed (I was swindled too), that it deserves comment,” Tyler Cowen wrote Monday morning on his popular Marginal Revolution blog. Mr. Cowen is an economics professor at George Mason University who earned his Ph.D. from Harvard. The story that inspired him to comment is a March 16 New York Times report carrying the headline, “Amid ‘Trump Effect’ Fear, 40% of Colleges See Dip in Foreign Applicants.”
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