Jihad, Texas style
05 May 2015 Leave a comment
in politics - USA, war and peace Tags: gun control, Jihad, taxes, war against terror
Flash Harry way of saying people vote more conservatively as they age
04 May 2015 Leave a comment
in politics - USA Tags: voter demographics
American opinions on abortion don’t differ that much by gender
04 May 2015 Leave a comment
in law and economics, politics - USA Tags: abortion, activists, feminism
Women have in recent years been more likely than men to hold the two absolute positions on abortion — saying it should be either legal under any circumstances or illegal in all circumstances — but these differences are not large.
Within various age and partisan categories, men and women are mostly similar in their views. Only with respect to education, specifically those with a college education, is there a sizable gender gap.
College-educated women are significantly more likely than college-educated men to believe abortion should be legal under any circumstances.
via Education Trumps Gender in Predicting Support for Abortion.
In the broadest terms, the largest segments of Republicans and Democrats have consistently preferred the middle "legal only under certain circumstances" abortion position.
What’s changed since 1975 is that the percentage of Republicans favouring the "illegal in all circumstances" position has grown and the percentage favouring the "legal under any circumstances" position has decreased. The reverse pattern is seen among Democrats.
via Republicans’, Dems’ Abortion Views Grow More Polarized.
The question I ask is why isn’t this substantial number of women with reservations to varying degrees about abortion not represented by the feminists who claim to speak on their behalf in the media?
Further evidence of the success of the 1996 US welfare reforms and a lack of wage stagnation
03 May 2015 1 Comment
in economic growth, economic history, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, welfare reform Tags: middle-class wage stagnation, top 1%, US welfare reforms, wage stagnation
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EPI Chart Bot (@epichartbot) April 27, 2015
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EPI Chart Bot (@epichartbot) April 05, 2015
The Hispanic vote in American elections, past and future
03 May 2015 Leave a comment
in politics - USA Tags: voter demographics
The effectiveness of environmentalists in mobilising public opinion
03 May 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: activists, expressive voting, green voters, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, voter demographics
The essence of media bias in America
02 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, politics - USA Tags: media bias
How much snow it typically takes to cancel school in the US
02 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, politics - USA Tags: winter snow
How much snow it typically takes to cancel school in the US http://t.co/9tYHIOG3pV—
Amazing Maps (@amazinmaps) May 02, 2015
Down and out in NZ = social housing with fast broadband
02 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality, urban economics
The Dominion Post had a front page story yesterday about an 80-year-old pensioner required to pay for fast broadband in her new social housing. Her new apartment happens to be in my same suburb. I can see the new apartments from my window as I type.
She didn’t have much use for this fast broadband, which cost an extra $20 a month, because she is legally blind. She cannot have a landline-only option because of the way her apartment is wired and the way in which fast broadband works.
The 27 flats have been fitted with fibre-optic cabling, and residents, many of whom are pensioners or have disabilities, cannot opt for a landline-only service.
National building standards require new apartments to be wired with fast broadband. A classic example of the inability of central planning to deal with the diversity of preferences and incomes.
In this case, the victim of central planning it is an old age pensioners obviously in poor circumstances as well as legally blind who is out of pocket. She is one of a number of old age pensioners who are similarly out-of-pocket when they living on a strictly limited budget.
College graduates don’t really notice recessions
02 May 2015 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economics of education, great recession, human capital, labour economics, macroeconomics, occupational choice, politics - USA, unemployment Tags: College premium, education premium, labour demographics
Our monthly update on the question: should I stay in school? blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015… http://t.co/IaVxoAJmqe—
Josh Zumbrun (@JoshZumbrun) April 03, 2015
New Zealand and US real housing prices, 1975 – 2014
01 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, politics - New Zealand, urban economics
The RMA is the Resource Management Act and was passed just before New Zealand housing prices started to rise rapidly. Was this introduction of much stronger restrictions on the supply of land, followed by a 20 year long rise in the price of land housing more than a coincidence?
Source: Dallas Fed; Housing prices deflated by personal consumption expenditure (PCE) deflator.
Social change is rapid – opinion on same-sex marriage version
01 May 2015 2 Comments
in economics of love and marriage, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: same-sex divorce, same-sex marriage
#Dailychart: Same-sex marriage is legal in 36 states. Here's how opinion has changed econ.st/1dpjNnI http://t.co/8fdhl8KJC2—
The Economist (@ECONdailycharts) April 28, 2015
Hauser’s Law: No matter what post-war tax rates have been, tax revenues remained at about 19.5% of GDP in the USA
01 May 2015 Leave a comment
in politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: Director's Law, laffer curve
Who pays the highest income tax rate?
01 May 2015 Leave a comment
in politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, public economics Tags: average tax rates, Marginal tax rates, vaccination and the labour supply
Highest income #tax rate among #OECD countries? Belgium with 42.8% statista.com/chart/3337/whe… http://t.co/RgaWxsGPzB—
Statista (@StatistaCharts) March 25, 2015
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