Stossel: The Science Around Male Brains vs. Female Brains
17 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, health and safety, health economics, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: evolutionary psychology
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
Deirdre McCloskey on why liberalism works
16 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, Rawls and Nozick, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: The Great Enrichment
Trade Union Congress nearly summarise the gender wage gap for @women_nz @JulieAnneGenter from a longitudinal study
16 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
@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
Accent Expert Explains How to Tell Accents Apart | @WIRED
15 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of education Tags: economics of languages
What is free will, really? Steven Pinker explains.
14 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of education, health economics Tags: evolutionary psychology
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
Few Nobel prize winners in science because few women undertook long duration degrees in the 60s because of no reliable contraception
12 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, human capital, labour supply, occupational choice
Andrew Neil vs Extinction Rebellion
11 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of education, economics of natural disasters, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
Colonialism and Modern Income: Islands as Natural Experiments by James Feyrer and Bruce Sacerdote
11 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economic law, International law, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: Age of Discovery, age of empires, Age of exploration, British empire, economics of colonialism
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