Jennifer Doleac on crime
23 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, econometerics, economics of crime, economics of information, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence
James Heckman on racial wage gaps and racial discrimination by employers
23 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

Blind audition study: Truth or myth? | FACTUAL FEMINIST
22 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economics of information, gender, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, personnel economics, survivor principle Tags: gender wage gap
Attention anti-science left @NZGreens (but not @Greens, who praised vaccines as the greatest public health intervention ever)
21 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of information, health economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: anti-vaccination movement, vaccines

A flaw common to many conspiracy theories
20 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: 9/11, conspiracy theories, conspiracy theorists, Iraq war

Shame on @greenpeace
20 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of information, environmental economics, growth disasters, health economics Tags: regressive left, The Great Escape

Is Climate Change an Existential Threat?
20 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of information, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
Ravallion on pilot bias or randomisters scaling up in poor, corrupt countries after succcesfully working with squeaky clean NGOs
19 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of information, growth disasters, law and economics, Public Choice Tags: bribery and corruption, The fatal conceit

I have a southern accent because of English ancestors
19 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture Tags: economics of languages

James Heckman on the lab rats fighting back against the randomisters
18 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, econometerics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, Public Choice Tags: The fatal conceit

Pritchett on the randomisters
18 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, econometerics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, growth disasters, growth miracles, Public Choice Tags: The fatal conceit

Lant Pritchett — The Debate about RCTs in Development is over.
18 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice



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