Already at age 4, children express a strong and probably innate tendency to negatively evaluate and punish free-riders, at a personal cost. https://t.co/iHNCJXlUJb pic.twitter.com/2VzBHhlt1H
— Rolf Degen (@DegenRolf) April 18, 2018
Even toddlers disdain free riders and bludgers
21 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of education Tags: child development
Many economists failed ethics pop quiz on feathering own nest, credentialism and rent seeking
19 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of education, Public Choice, rentseeking
Contrary to all reports, more children are walking to school but bikes are on the way out
13 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of education, transport economics
Why so many female pharmacy and veterinary students #EqualPayDay. Well paid 9-5 jobs?
11 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
Liberals vs. Free Speech | Real Time with Bill Maher
11 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of education, politics - USA Tags: Charles Murray, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Do Personality Tests Mean Anything?
10 Apr 2018 1 Comment
in economics of education, labour economics, managerial economics, personnel economics Tags: personality psychology
Saving Kids From Government Schools
10 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: charter schools, School choice
Glenn Loury & Amy Wax [The Glenn Show]
09 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, politics - USA Tags: affirmative action, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
Thomas Sowell on the Vulgar Pride of Intellectuals
27 Mar 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, economics of regulation, labour economics Tags: Thomas Sowell
21 year-old LBJ forbad his Mexican students from speaking Spanish at school. He knew that learning English was central to their chances of escaping poverty
25 Mar 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of education
My first job after college was as a teacher in Cotulla, Tex., in a small Mexican-American school. Few of them could speak English, and I couldn’t speak much Spanish. My students were poor and they often came to class without breakfast, hungry. They knew even in their youth the pain of prejudice. They never seemed to know why people disliked them. But they knew it was so, because I saw it in their eyes. I often walked home late in the afternoon, after the classes were finished, wishing there was more that I could do. But all I knew was to teach them the little that I knew, hoping that it might help them against the hardships that lay ahead. Somehow you never forget what poverty and hatred can do when you see its scars on the hopeful face of a young child. I never thought then, in 1928, that I would be standing here in 1965. It never even occurred to me in my fondest dreams that I might have the chance to help the sons and daughters of those students and to help people like them all over this country.
From Special Message to the Congress: The American Promise
March 15, 1965
Is education worth it?
25 Mar 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of education, human capital, labour economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics Tags: Bryan Caplan, signalling
Good division of skills and challenges
20 Mar 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of marriage, occupational choice, Public Choice
The case against education (Part 1) – interview with Bryan Caplan
17 Mar 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of education, economics of information, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics Tags: Bryan Caplan, signalling
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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