
LBJ was equally strict with Mexican students who spoke Spanish because learning English was vital to their futures
05 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of education, human capital, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality Tags: economics of languages

When people from the back blocks come to town
03 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of education, economics of information, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, poverty and inequality Tags: racial discrimination

An interview with James Q. Wilson (1995) | THINK TANK
03 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, labour economics, law and economics, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: crime and punishment, family poverty, law and order
Most Popular Home Gadgets in US Households 1910 – 2019
02 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, poverty and inequality Tags: The Great Enrichment
An intersectionality puzzle: Black and Hispanic women are now enrolling in college at higher rates than white men?
01 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: reversing gender gap

Black income mobility in an era of neoliberal ascendency @AOC @BernieSanders
28 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, labour economics, poverty and inequality Tags: racial discrimination

Robert Lucas on income distribution
26 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economics of education, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: The Great Escape, The Great Fact

George Stigler (1949) on the increasing obsession of economists with income distribution
26 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, George Stigler, labour economics, poverty and inequality Tags: pessimism bias

Daron Acemoglu: Labor demand through the ages
25 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, economics of education, gender, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, unemployment Tags: automation, creative destruction




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