Loury and McWhorter tackle the racial mismatch hypothesis and Affirmative Action
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in discrimination, economics of education, human capital, labour economics Tags: affirmative action, racial discrimination
Do they have academic tenure anymore?
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in economics of education, human capital, labour economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics Tags: academic tenure, compensating differentials, occupational choice
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Education and the risk of criminality
22 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of education, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA Tags: crime and punishment
Roland Fryer on Education, Inequality, & Incentives
19 Dec 2015 1 Comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: charter schools, racial discrimination, Roland Fryer
The gap between black and white students appears as early as kindergarten and grows with time
17 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, labour economics, politics - USA Tags: early childhood education, racial discrimination
Earnings distribution by level of education
13 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of education, human capital, labour economics Tags: College premium, education premium, graduate premium, high school dropouts
Are women just too smart to be computer scientists?
08 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: economics of personality traits, gender wage gap, reversing gender gap
Women started drifting away from computer science in the mid-1980s. The interpretation put forward by the professional grievance industry, that is, by National Public Radio in the USA is:
The share of women in computer science started falling at roughly the same moment when personal computers started showing up in U.S. homes in significant numbers.
These early personal computers weren’t much more than toys. You could play pong or simple shooting games, maybe do some word processing.
And these toys were marketed almost entirely to men and boys. This idea that computers are for boys became a narrative. It became the story we told ourselves about the computing revolution. It helped define who geeks were, and it created techie culture.
Source: NPR
Another interpretation is there are systematic differences between teenage boys and teenage girls in verbal and written skills. Young women moved away from enrolling in computer…
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Where are British taxes spent?
26 Nov 2015 1 Comment
in budget deficits, defence economics, economics of education, fiscal policy, health economics, labour supply Tags: ageing society, British economy, British politics, demographic crisis
The Heckman equation explained
26 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economics of education, human capital Tags: early childhood education, economics of families, James Heckman
The gender pay gap for tertiary educated women aged 35 to 44, English-speaking countries, 2013
25 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of education, gender
Source: OECD Education at a Glance.
The 2013 college premium in the English-speaking countries
24 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
New Zealand seems to have jumped ahead of Australia this year. New Zealand used to be at the bottom of the OECD ladder.
Source: OECD Education at a Glance 2015.
White Brits are the ethnic group least likely to go to university
24 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, human capital, labour economics Tags: British economy, College premium, graduate premium, tertiary attainment, university premium
Adam Smith’s views on education
19 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in Adam Smith, economics of education Tags: wealth of nations
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