That is a new JEP piece by Melissa S. Kearney, Phillip B. Levine, and Luke Pardue. The piece, while not easily summarized, is interesting throughout. Here is one bit: The decline in birth rates has been widespread across the country. Birth rates fell in every state over this period, except for North Dakota. One possible […]
The Puzzle of Falling US Birth Rates since the Great Recession
The Puzzle of Falling US Birth Rates since the Great Recession
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What Can We Conclude from the Evidence on Minimum Wages and Employment? …
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More “Social Justice Fallacies,” with Thomas Sowell | Uncommon Knowledge
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in applied price theory, discrimination, economic history, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, liberalism, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, Thomas Sowell, unemployment Tags: racial discrimination, sex discrimination
Law-Abiding Immigrants
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in economic history, economics of crime, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: economics of immigration, law and order
The subtitle is The Incarceration Gap Between Immigrants and the U.S.-Born, 1850–2020, and the authors are Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan, Elisa Jácome, Santiago Pérez, and Juan David Torres. Here is the to-the-point abstract: Combining full-count Census data with Census/ACS samples, the researchers provide the first nationally representative long-run series (1870–2020) of incarceration rates for immigrants […]
Law-Abiding Immigrants
Discrimination?
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The risk the Greens’ wealth tax poses to our economy
21 Jul 2023 Leave a comment
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Thomas Sowell – Illegal Immigration Explained (Q&A) Migrations & Cultures
15 Jul 2023 Leave a comment
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How the West Destroyed Slavery Around the World | Thomas Sowell
12 Jul 2023 Leave a comment
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Don’t Be a Feminist: The Fleischman Interview with Bryan Caplan
26 May 2023 Leave a comment
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Creative destruction of jobs
25 Apr 2023 Leave a comment
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