#Monday morning blues? Compare the avg number of #working hours in yr country per year http://t.co/vSZUDnHa3o #stats pic.twitter.com/KFLwXc7h0Z
— OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives (@OECD) August 31, 2015
Hours worked per year across the OECD
31 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in labour economics, labour supply Tags: hours worked
Single motherhood and the feminisation of poverty
31 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of love and marriage, gender, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: asymmetric marriage premium, child poverty, economics and fertility, engines of liberation, family poverty, marriage and divorce, marriage premium, single mothers, single parents
43.1% of single mothers are living in poverty this #MothersDay statusofwomendata.org http://t.co/OgWcmvLnDZ—
IWPR (@IWPResearch) May 10, 2015
The trouble with boys
31 Aug 2015 1 Comment
in applied welfare economics, labour economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, welfare reform Tags: economics of the family, lost boys, reversing gender gap, single mothers, single parents
The Trouble w Boys: U Chicago study: boys fr non-intact homes esp likely to struggle in school nber.org/papers/w17541 http://t.co/31xyA4BVQH—
W Bradford Wilcox (@WilcoxNMP) June 18, 2015
Taken before helicopter parenting
30 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, health and safety Tags: helicopter parenting
Low numeracy skills across the OECD
30 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: literacy and numeracy, PISA, reading and writing
US income distribution
29 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, income redistribution, labour economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: top 1%
The incomes of the bottom 99%
28 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: top 1%
Did Mass Incarceration Destroy the Black Family?
28 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of love and marriage, labour economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, population economics, poverty and inequality, unemployment, urban economics, welfare reform Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, economics of the family, racial discrimination, single mothers, single parents, teen pregnancies
Did Mass Incarceration Destroy the Black Family? Not exactly. bit.ly/1f8jgXm http://t.co/1q2nKJnU9W—
City Journal (@CityJournal) August 13, 2015
The Chinese demographic crisis is now
26 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, labour economics, labour supply, population economics Tags: ageing society, China, demographic crisis, older workers
China's massive economic advantage over the world is about to disappear read.bi/1MkYx1p http://t.co/Fw9zmMTuVx—
BI Markets (@themoneygame) August 11, 2015
Should backyard swimming pools be banned?
26 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of crime, economics of regulation, health and safety, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights Tags: gun control, meddlesome preferences, nanny state, risk risk trade-offs
Do the @NZGreens care about the fuel poverty consequences of carbon taxes?
24 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: carbon tax, climate alarmism, expressive voting, fuel poverty, global warming
Who is harmed the most from higher energy costs? The poor, who spend almost 25% of their disposable income on energy? http://t.co/YOn28COXy8—
Mark J. Perry (@Mark_J_Perry) June 22, 2015
Marginal tax rates of 2-income couples with 2 children in USA, UK, Australia and New Zealand since 2000
23 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of love and marriage, labour economics, labour supply, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, public economics Tags: Australia taxation and labour supply, British economy, marriage and divorce
Source: OECD StatExtract.
Who profits from #climatechange alarmism #COP21 and #roadtoparis
23 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, labour economics, occupational choice, personnel economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: bribery and corruption, conjecture and refutation, consultants, green hypocrisy, green rent seeking, Left-wing hypocrisy, public intellectuals
https://twitter.com/RogerAPielkeSr/status/627888796562927616/photo/1
A schematic of climate system from nap.edu/openbook.php?r… Changes are much more than changes in CO2 concentrations http://t.co/g8gs44UnN8—
Roger A. Pielke Sr (@RogerAPielkeSr) August 05, 2015
Marginal tax rates of a nuclear family in USA, UK, Australia and New Zealand since 2000
22 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of love and marriage, labour economics, labour supply, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Australia, British economy, marriage and divorce, taxation and labour supply
Source: OECD StatExtract.
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