
The Danes are awash in data. Shed a tear for your own job security if there is a death in the CEO’s family.
23 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

Jennifer Doleac on crime
23 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, econometerics, economics of crime, economics of information, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence
On the ethics of the randomisters
20 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, econometerics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, health economics, Public Choice Tags: The fatal conceit
James Heckman on the lab rats fighting back against the randomisters
18 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, econometerics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, Public Choice Tags: The fatal conceit

Pritchett on the randomisters
18 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, econometerics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, growth disasters, growth miracles, Public Choice Tags: The fatal conceit

Angus Deaton Understanding and misunderstanding randomized controlled trials
16 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, econometerics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, growth disasters, health economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, Public Choice, public economics, theory of the firm Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, The pretence to knowledge, unintended consequences
@WorldBank was said to fight world poverty one staff member at a time. Is one field research grant at a time to reconfirm the obvious any better?
15 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, econometerics, economics of education, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: The fatal conceit

Nobel prize for discovering if you subsidise something, you see more of it!! Many years worth of randomized controlled trials just to make sure in dirt poor countries. Didn’t know child vaccination payoffs so marginal that you had to check.
15 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, econometerics, economics of education, economics of information, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: The fatal conceit, The pretence to knowledge

Dr. Ross McKitrick
13 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, econometerics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: climate alarmism
William Nordhaus on DICE, PAGE and FUND not modelling tipping points
10 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, econometerics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, public economics
With friends like this, #ClimateEmergency #ExtinctionRebellion won’t live to face its enemies @mfe_news @jamespeshaw
07 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, econometerics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Beauty wage premium econometric’s flaw is women think most men are ugly and men have no idea
03 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, econometerics, human capital, labour economics, occupational choice

From http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hal/people/hal/NYTimes/2003-08-28.html
Sex differences in mate preferences are no smaller in more gender-equal nations, contrary to the idea that these di… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…—
Steve Stewart-Williams (@SteveStuWill) May 31, 2019
How Nordhaus responded to #globalwarming skeptics
03 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in econometerics, economics of education, economics of information, economics of natural disasters, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmism, philosophy of science

Another brain teaser for woke left @NZGreens @greenpeace @oxfam @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren @jeremycorbyn
26 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, econometerics, economic history, Public Choice, Thomas Sowell Tags: The fatal conceit





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