The ubiquity and selectiveness of statistical discrimination
05 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: adverse selection, asymmetric information, racial discrimination, statistical discrimination

Lang and Lehmann 2005, JEL
Gordon Tullock on the accidental Korean economic miracle
04 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, Gordon Tullock, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, international economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: South Korea

Sexual Roles and the Theory of Parental Investment
03 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in David Friedman, discrimination, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, health economics, human capital, labour supply, occupational choice, urban economics Tags: evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology
45% of Australia’s residential aged care facilities are for profit
02 Oct 2020 1 Comment
in industrial organisation, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, property rights Tags: ageing society
How do DHBs find out how many kids specialists have to pay mothers less per kid? Illegal to ask. Maybe supply-side factors are driving the gender wage gap?
02 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, econometerics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, gender, health economics, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, personnel economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: gender wage gap, motherhood penalty
.@BernieSanders @AOC @Greens @NZGreens
02 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, development economics, discrimination, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, Economics of international refugee law, economics of love and marriage, economics of regulation, economics of religion, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, financial economics, fiscal policy, gender, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles, health and safety, health economics, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, International law, job search and matching, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: Age of Enlightenment, moral psychology, offsetting behaviour, political psychology, regressive left, The fatal conceit, The Great Enrichment, unintended consequences, useful idiots

Econ Duel: Why Is the Rent So Damn High?
02 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of regulation, law and economics, property rights, transport economics, urban economics Tags: housing affordability
Immigration Rights | Political Philosophy with Jason Brennan
01 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, income redistribution, international economic law, International law, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, poverty and inequality, property rights Tags: economics of immigration
Little wonder @women_nz ignores world’s top female economist
01 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, health and safety, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: gender wage gap, pessimism bias, regressive left

Blaspheming while it is still legal
30 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, liberalism, politics - New Zealand Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, Freedom of religion, political correctness, regressive left

Stoners don’t like to pay tax
29 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, health economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, liberalism, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: California, marijuana decrimilisation, offsetting behaviour, unintended consequences
Bryan Caplan on wage gaps
29 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, econometerics, economics of education, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, unemployment, unions Tags: gender wage gap, racial discrimination, sex discrimination

Posting this before progressive left outlaws it as blasphemy
29 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: Age of Enlightenment, Blasphemy, free speech, Freedom of religion, political correctness, regressive left

Having Children in Poverty: Kathryn Edin
29 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of love and marriage, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, economic of fertility, family poverty, marriage and divorce




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