Does Government Debt Matter Anymore? | Perspectives On Policy
02 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, economic growth, economic history, fiscal policy, health economics, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics
The Puzzle of Falling US Birth Rates since the Great Recession
30 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
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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
What Can We Conclude from the Evidence on Minimum Wages and Employment? …
30 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, econometerics, economic history, economics of regulation, labour economics, labour supply, minimum wage, unemployment
More “Social Justice Fallacies,” with Thomas Sowell | Uncommon Knowledge
29 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
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
08 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
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?
31 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: sex discrimination
The risk the Greens’ wealth tax poses to our economy
21 Jul 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economic history, entrepreneurship, financial economics, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, public economics Tags: taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment
Thomas Sowell – Illegal Immigration Explained (Q&A) Migrations & Cultures
15 Jul 2023 Leave a comment
in economic history, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, population economics Tags: economics of immigration
How the West Destroyed Slavery Around the World | Thomas Sowell
12 Jul 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of crime, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics Tags: age of empires, economics of slavery
Don’t Be a Feminist: The Fleischman Interview with Bryan Caplan
26 May 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, discrimination, econometerics, economic history, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: sex discrimination
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