The list of no-go zones for U.S. airlines keeps growinghttps://t.co/5qQ04v7nXH pic.twitter.com/WMIJH8hHPQ
— Post Graphics (@PostGraphics) November 3, 2015
The list of no-go zones for U.S. airlines keeps growing
05 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, transport economics Tags: air crashes, aviation, war on terror
Most of the gender pay gap explained by age, marriage, hours worked
05 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of love and marriage, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA Tags: asymmetric marriage premium, compensating differentials, female labour force participation, gender wage gap, marital labour supply
HT: Lorenzo Michael Warby.
What do people say on a good first date?
01 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage Tags: dating market, marriage and divorce, marriage market, search and matching
The linguistic features of dates that click click click click
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Roseann Cima (@rosiecima) May 22, 2015
Is Greece catching up with Russia as a place to do business? World Bank Doing Business Rankings 2016
28 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, international economics, law and economics
The only clear advantage Greece has on Russia as a place to do business is trading across borders because of European Union membership. Russia is a dog of a place to get things across borders. Greece has dropped two places overall ranking as a place to do business while Russia climbed 3 places in the World Bank 2016 Doing Business rankings as compared to their 2015 Doing Business rankings.
Source: Historical Data – Doing Business- World Bank Group.
In 2016, Russia has considerable strengths as compared to Greece in a number of other areas of doing business such as enforcing contracts, registering property and starting a business. Russia is even a slightly better place to pay taxes than Greece! Russia’s World Bank Doing Business ranking for trading across borders has not changed between 2015 and 2016.
Starting a business in the USA, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Australia, New Zealand and Greece – 2016 World Bank Doing Business Rankings
28 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, law and economics
If you doing anything as badly as Greece, which Italy and certainly Germany have some explaining, it’s really difficult to start a business in your country. The British and French don’t have anything to crow about either.
How long do drugs and alcohol stay in your system?
28 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, health economics, labour economics
Occupational choice and the marriage market
28 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: dating market, marriage and divorce, marriage market
What Professions Are Most Likely To Marry Each Other?
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Priceonomics (@priceonomics) September 16, 2015
@PeterDunneMP The dangerous political opportunism of the marijuana decriminalisation lobby
26 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of regulation, health economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice
Preview of @NZQandA tomorrow https://t.co/svYBRTpUeR—
Peter Dunne (@PeterDunneMP) October 23, 2015
Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne was onto something when he pointed out that a number of those supporting the legalisation of medicinal cannabis oils are using it as a stalking horse to legalise the marijuana leaf.
After reading the wonderful investigation in Saturday’s Dominion Post, it’s quite clear that cannabis oil has nothing to do with marijuana liberalisation.
The Associate Health Minister pointed out on television yesterday that there is already one cannabis oil derivative product approved by Medisafe and available on prescription. It is open to any pharmaceutical company to submit any other cannabis oil and marijuana derivative medicine for approval. There will be a fair hearing.
Medical marijuana is already legal in New Zealand. Few cannabis oil and marijuana leaf derivatives have been approved under the Medicines Act because few have shown to be an effective medication.
Those campaigned for a marijuana law reform would do a lot of sick people a service by saying that the campaign from better access and government funding of cannabis oil and other marijuana derivatives is a separate issue from which they stand apart. They should be not trying to follow in medicinal cannabis deregulation to liberalise recreational use of marijuana.
The issues have nothing to do with each other. Those who want marijuana liberalisation should stand on their own political feet.
US deaths (2013)
Tobacco 437k
Alcohol 29k
Opoids 16k
Heroin 8k
Cocaine 5k
Marijuana 0vox.com/2014/5/19/5727… http://t.co/o8yMDf7oE0—
Conrad Hackett (@conradhackett) August 04, 2015
By infiltrating the medical marijuana lobby, their entryism slows any deregulation of the medicinal uses of cannabis oil and marijuana leaf because of slippery slope arguments.
A group of men and women gleefully demonstrate against Prohibition in 1932. http://t.co/686SwVHyC0—
Old Pics Archive (@oldpicsarchive) January 29, 2015
The marijuana decriminalisation lobby should be honest and say that it happens to be a coincidence that marijuana has other constituents that have medicinal uses. They want to decriminalise marijuana because they just want to get high.
Partnership status of young adults, USA, UK, Sweden, New Zealand, Italy, Germany the, France, Denmark, Canada and Australia
26 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, population economics Tags: economics of fertility, family demographics, marriage and divorce, search and matching
They certainly don’t go much for cohabiting in Italy or indeed the USA among young adults. Cohabitation is pretty much the same everywhere else. Marriage is not so common in Sweden generally among young people.
Source: OECD Family Database – OECD.
@thecounted @radleybalko police shootings of blacks by threat level @PostGraphics
25 Oct 2015 1 Comment
in economics of crime, politics - USA
The Washington Post wrote a wonderful investigative journalism article today on police shootings in the USA. The Washington Post started with a Wisconsin state trooper murdered in a shoot-out with an escaping bank robber.
The young state trooper was on his first solo patrol. State Trooper Trevor Casper was tailing a bank robber who suddenly turned his car back on him and shot repeatedly at the state trooper. Both died in the gun battle. The bank robber used armour piercing ammunition to pierce the body armour of the state trooper.
Source: Investigation: Police shootings – Washington Post.
I have augmented the graphics of the Washington Post by breaking it down for shooting of blacks, which is the main political controversy in the USA at the moment. In the chart above I broke down those with signs of mental illness only when they were attacking with a deadly weapon to avoid clutter in what is already a busy pie chart.
With your help, we've counted 928 people killed in the US by police this year. Send us tips @thecounted. https://t.co/s8ahmm6ZdK—
The Counted (@thecounted) October 23, 2015
The big secret again from the Washington Post database is don’t confront armed police with a weapon. Most people who are shot by police are either attacking police or brandishing a weapon.
Of 800 fatal shootings by police in 2015, 595 occurred after a range of violent crimes wapo.st/on-duty-under-… https://t.co/cYtbY2ohwP—
Post Graphics (@PostGraphics) October 24, 2015
Police officers who shoot an unarmed suspect at a safe distance are highly likely to be charged as I have previously argued. The Washington Post found that only 5% of the police shootings it reviewed for 2015 were suspicious in terms of police misconduct.
Who is married with children in USA, UK, Canada, Germany and France?
25 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, population economics Tags: economics of fertility, marriage and divorce, search and matching, single parents, soul parents
Source: OECD Family Database – OECD.
The truth about gun free zones
25 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of crime, economics of regulation, law and economics Tags: expressive voting, gun control, gun free zones, meddlesome preferences, nanny state, offsetting behaviour, rational rationality, unintended consequences
The marital division of labour
24 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
Women still do most of the household chores? Data on who does what in the house: goo.gl/3doqy4 #statistics https://t.co/fnY0d9OgkT—
DataStories (@LindaRegber) October 24, 2015
How common is marriage in two-parent households, selected OECD countries
24 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, population economics
Living in sin is much more popular in some countries. The French and Scandinavians are really big on not bothering to marry but live together and raise children.
Source: OECD Family Database.
Data on the number of two-parent households who were married or not was not available for the USA, Australia or New Zealand, unfortunately.
Living arrangements of children, USA, UK, New Zealand, France, Canada, Australia, Sweden, Germany, Italy and Japan
24 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, population economics
The percentage of sole parent households varies widely across the OECD member countries charted below including between the English-speaking countries.
Source: OECD Family Database.
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