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Another gender gap
11 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, gender, health and safety, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender gap
Not Bridgeable
10 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economic history, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, income redistribution, labour economics, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: 2024 presidential election, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
In the last few years, especially after I started writing for this blog, I got more than a few comments about the need for bi-partisanship, not hating out ideological, let alone political opponents. What was notable about this was that they all came from the Right of the political spectrum. The Left seem quite happy […]
Not Bridgeable
The Irish reject a “Woke” constitutional change
10 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of love and marriage, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics Tags: Ireland
Ireland’s effort to remove old-fashioned family values from its constitution suffered a double defeat Saturday as voters rejected the amendments on offer as maddeningly vague and threatening to property rights… In final results announced Saturday night, the amendment to change the constitutional definition of family was rejected by 67.7 percent of voters. The proposed changes […]
The Irish reject a “Woke” constitutional change
#IWD2024
08 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - Australia Tags: gender wage gap, sex discrimination
Longing for Auschwitz.
07 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, gender, International law, law and economics, laws of war, liberalism, war and peace Tags: Age of Enlightenment, Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics, Nazi Germany, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left, The Holocaust, war against terror
An article in Tablet Magazine with that title, “Longing for Auschwitz., that nails what lies at the heart of what happened in Israel last October 7. A couple of excerpts but as always… Hamas’s assault on Israelis on October 7th was not an act of war as we normally think of it but something far […]
Longing for Auschwitz.
In 1900, when most U.S. women baked their own bread and did the laundry by hand, maintaining a home was a full-time job.
24 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of love and marriage, gender, labour economics, law and economics Tags: The Great Enrichment
Texas professor fired, then reinstated after a lawsuit, for teaching that chromosomes determine human sex
23 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, gender, health economics, labour economics, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: Age of Enlightenment, employment law, free speech, political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination
In general, one can’t say that chromosomes “determine sex” in animals, as there are other genetic or environmental features that determine what sex an individual becomes. As Coyne and Maroja (2023) note: Different sexes can determined during development bybe based on different chromosomes and their genes (e.g., XX vs. XY in humans, ZW vs. ZZ in birds, […]
Texas professor fired, then reinstated after a lawsuit, for teaching that chromosomes determine human sex
Pay Transparency: What’s Good to Know?
15 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in discrimination, econometerics, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap
In some countries, like Norway, your income tax forms are public information, so any one can look up what anyone else earns. In a US context, income is mostly considered to be private information, unless you are a public employee or an executive at a public company. Would it be a good thing to have…
Pay Transparency: What’s Good to Know?
Alice Evans on the ideological gender divide
13 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, gender wage gap, sex discrimination
I suggest, Men and women tend to think alike in societies where there is Close-knit interdependence, religosity and authoritarianism, or Shared cultural production and mixed gendered offline socialising. Gendered ideological polarisation appears encouraged by: Feminised public culture Economic resentment Social media filter bubbles Cultural entrepreneurs. Here is the full piece, currently the best piece on […]
Alice Evans on the ideological gender divide
Another gender gap gone
11 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice
The Great Fact
10 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic growth, economic history, gender, growth miracles, macroeconomics, poverty and inequality Tags: The Great Enrichment, The Great Fact
LINDSAY MITCHELL: Labour hid developing welfare crisis
08 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, family poverty
Lindsay Mitchell writes- When National became government in 2008, Finance Minister Bill English’s determination to understand the extent of benefit-dependency led them to commission Taylor Fry to produce annual actuarial reports. These were duly published at the MSD website every year but ceased when the government changed in 2017. Now however, an Official Information request […]
LINDSAY MITCHELL: Labour hid developing welfare crisis
CNN is confused about sex
02 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, health economics Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, gender gap, political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination
Here’s a headline at CNN Health that is seemingly confused about what a “woman” is. Note that the word, which means “adult human female” appears blatantly in the headlines, but perhaps the headline writer was ideologically different from the authors: (click on screenshot to read) This is the gist of the article, and, indeed, […]
CNN is confused about sex
Family leave and the gender wage gap
16 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, econometerics, economic history, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: economics of fertility, family leave, gender wage gap, marriage and divorce, sex discrimination
The gender wage gap has been decreasing slowly and steadily over time. At least, that’s what I thought until I read this 2023 NBER Working Paper by Peter Blair (Harvard University) and Benjamin Posmanick (St. Bonaventure University). They present the following graph of the gender wage gap in the US (for White women, compared with White men,…
Family leave and the gender wage gap
Colin Wright on sex and its distortion by the American Psychiatric Association
13 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination
Reader Bryan sent me a link to the tweets by Colin Wright below (the first is most important) which is about the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA’s) new book on Gender Affirming Psychiatric Care. (For some reason I can’t download it.) The APA is the premier association of American psychiatrists, so this will carry a lot […]
Colin Wright on sex and its distortion by the American Psychiatric Association
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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