Searching for Answers with Randomized Experiments
31 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, econometerics, history of economic thought Tags: philosophy of science
Economics of the City, Edward Glaeser
30 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, econometerics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, economics of regulation, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, transport economics, urban economics
Robert Lucas and Paco Buera | Idea Flows and Economic Growth
20 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, econometerics, economic history, economics of education, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality, Robert E. Lucas Tags: endogenous growth theory
John Gibson Gibson lockdown costs Plan B weekly webinar – 12/10/2020
13 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, econometerics, economics of bureaucracy, health economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: economics of pandemics
Women gave birth to modern empirical labour economics because men are boring and predictable
11 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in econometerics, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice
Fiscal multipliers and welfare benefit increases
10 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, budget deficits, business cycles, econometerics, economic history, fiscal policy, history of economic thought, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, welfare reform Tags: fiscal multiplier, Keynesian macroeconomics, New Keynesian macroeconomics
Recalibrating Affirmative Action | Glenn Loury & Peter Arcidiacono
10 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, econometerics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: affirmative action, offsetting behaviour, racial discrimination, regressive left, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
How do DHBs find out how many kids specialists have to pay mothers less per kid? Illegal to ask. Maybe supply-side factors are driving the gender wage gap?
02 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, econometerics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, gender, health economics, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, personnel economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: gender wage gap, motherhood penalty
Bryan Caplan on wage gaps
29 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, econometerics, economics of education, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, unemployment, unions Tags: gender wage gap, racial discrimination, sex discrimination
The Great Stagnation by Tyler Cowen
28 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, econometerics, economic growth, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, poverty and inequality Tags: creative destruction, endogenous growth theory
Angus Deaton: Epidemiology, randomised trials, and the search for what works in economic development
20 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, development economics, econometerics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, history of economic thought, labour economics, minimum wage, Public Choice Tags: philosophy of science, The fatal conceit
Spot on Bryan Caplan
15 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, econometerics, economics of education, economics of information, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: methodology of economics, philosophy of science, racial discrimination, sex discrimination
Fiat Value in the theory of value – an ADEMU lecture by Edward C Prescott
12 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, business cycles, econometerics, economic growth, economic history, economics of regulation, Edward Prescott, fiscal policy, fisheries economics, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics Tags: real business cycles
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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