Steven Landsburg – Why is there something instead of nothing? – September 19,2020
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Women gave birth to modern empirical labour economics because men are boring and predictable
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How can gender be socially constructed given the revolution in sex roles since 1900?
10 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
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Recalibrating Affirmative Action | Glenn Loury & Peter Arcidiacono
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Kate Andrews on the Gender Pay Gap, Feminism, Socialism & the NHS
10 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, entrepreneurship, gender, health and safety, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: gender wage gap
Kate Andrews | Feminism CAN Be Capitalist (4/6) | Oxford Union
08 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
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Wokeness explained
07 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
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The ubiquity and selectiveness of statistical discrimination
05 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
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Lang and Lehmann 2005, JEL
Sexual Roles and the Theory of Parental Investment
03 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
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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
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.@BernieSanders @AOC @Greens @NZGreens
02 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
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Interview with Charles Murray (March 16, 2020)
01 Oct 2020 2 Comments
in economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, poverty and inequality Tags: cognitive psychology
Little wonder @women_nz ignores world’s top female economist
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in applied price theory, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, health and safety, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: gender wage gap, pessimism bias, regressive left
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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