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
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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
Do you believe top sociologists or your own lying eyes? Field experiments missed a social revolution
11 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, econometerics, economics of education, labour economics, politics - USA Tags: racial discrimination
From The persistence of racial discrimination in hiring Lincoln Quillian, Devah Pager, Ole Hexel, Arnfinn H. Midtbøen Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Oct 2017, 114 (41) 10870-10875; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1706255114
INCU Global Conference 2014 – Thomas J. Sargent – Keynote Address on the effects of opening borders
02 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, budget deficits, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, currency unions, econometerics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, financial economics, fiscal policy, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economic law, international economics, International law, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle, transport economics, unemployment Tags: custom unions, free trade, tariffs
David Henderson on Monopsony
02 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, discrimination, econometerics, economic history, history of economic thought, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking, sports economics Tags: inequality of bargaining power, monopsony
Thomas Sargent:The 2011 Nobel Prize Winner For His Work On Relating Policy & Economics. 2017 interview
30 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, econometerics, economic growth, economic history, Euro crisis, financial economics, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, inflation targeting, job search and matching, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics, Robert E. Lucas Tags: monetary policy
Demonetization: When 86% of India’s Currency Disappeared (Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Harvard)
28 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, development economics, econometerics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, entrepreneurship, Euro crisis, financial economics, global financial crisis (GFC), growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: bribery and corruption, currency unions, Euro, monetary policy
Thomas J. Sargent on macroeconomics and the crisis 2013
27 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, currency unions, econometerics, economic growth, economic history, Euro crisis, financial economics, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, inflation targeting, Jan van Ours, job search and matching, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics, Robert E. Lucas, unemployment Tags: monetary policy
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