As China grew freer economically, its poverty rate fell. buff.ly/1KohOxS http://t.co/OpaxOzNdNs—
HumanProgress.org (@humanprogress) June 29, 2015
Capitalism and The Great Fact in China
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: capitalism and freedom, China, fall of communism, Leftover Left, transitional economies
Low performers in maths by gender, USA, UK, Japan, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
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Figure 1: % of students achieving a proficiency level below 2 in maths by gender, USA, UK, New Zealand, Japan, Canada and Australia, 2012
Source: OECD StatExtract.
What group has by far the lowest jobless rate?
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What group has by far the lowest jobless rate? College grads on.wsj.com/1Mtk8l9 http://t.co/27ft9qYjvz—
WSJ Central Banks (@WSJCentralBanks) June 05, 2015
Share of university degrees conferred to U.S. women since 1970
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Share of university degrees conferred to U.S. women since 1970 (via @MaxCRoser) http://t.co/FUGrM7WbJd—
Claire Lehmann (@clairlemon) July 09, 2015
Low performers in science by gender, USA, UK, Japan, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
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Figure 1: % of students achieving a proficiency level below 2 in science by gender, USA, UK, New Zealand, Japan, Canada and Australia, 2012
Source: OECD StatExtract.
And the rich got richer, who cares
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"The rich got richer, true. But…" —@DeirdreMcClosk buff.ly/1Imdv4o http://t.co/M3ERx3JTIn—
HumanProgress.org (@humanprogress) June 28, 2015
Low performers in reading by gender, USA, UK, Japan, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
15 Jul 2015 1 Comment
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Figure 1: % of students achieving a proficiency level below 2 in reading by gender, USA, UK, New Zealand, Japan, Canada and Australia, 2012
Source: OECD StatExtract.
Gender gaps and reversing gender gaps in education
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A perspective on the overweening conceit of youth
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Does education pay in New Zealand?
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New Zealand teachers’ unions are above average in their effectiveness
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Scientific Misbehavior in Economics and Publish or Perish
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The political bias of psychologists
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Why is it that the economics profession is the only profession questioned on the grounds of its political diversity?
1) Academic psychology once had considerable political diversity, but has lost nearly all of it in the last 50 years;
2) This lack of political diversity can undermine the validity of social psychological science via mechanisms such as the embedding of liberal values into research questions and methods, steering researchers away from important but politically unpalatable research topics, and producing conclusions that mischaracterize liberals and conservatives alike;
3) Increased political diversity would improve social psychological science by reducing the impact of bias mechanisms such as confirmation bias, and by empowering dissenting minorities to improve the quality of the majority’s thinking; and
4) The underrepresentation of non-liberals in social psychology is most likely due to a combination of self-selection, hostile climate, and discrimination.
via Psychology’s Political Diversity Problem | Psychology Today.
The evolution of global warming scepticism
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Nobel-Winning Scientists are Getting Older
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in economic history, economics of education, human capital, industrial organisation, personnel economics Tags: death of the Renaissance man, Nobel prizes, rising burden of knowledge
Why Nobel-Winning Scientists are Getting Older:
priceonomics.com/why-nobel-winn… http://t.co/rNxCUS0xG2—
Priceonomics (@priceonomics) April 10, 2015
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