Divorce used to be biggest engine of single parenthood in America. No more. It's nonmarital childbearing cc@davidfrum http://t.co/J5yZtUukNW—
W Bradford Wilcox (@WilcoxNMP) June 10, 2015
Trends in what drives single motherhood
11 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
What it would take for the US to run on 100% renewable energy
10 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA Tags: expressive voting, geothermal power, hydroelectric power, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, renewable energy, solar power, tidal power, wind power
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How do presidential candidates spend $1 billion?
10 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: campaign finance regulation, expressive voting, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
New Zealand primary school teachers have experienced rapid wages growth by international standards
10 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: teachers pay
What It’s Like to Be Declared Dead by the US Government
09 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, politics - USA Tags: government failure, Social Security numbers
In 2011, the Office of the Inspector General conducted an audit of the Death Master File, and found that, from May 2007 to April 2010, 36,657 living people (12,219 per year) had been prematurely added, nulling them legally dead. After probing deeper, officials estimated that between 700 and 2,800 people were erroneously declared dead every month since the list’s inception. Over the file’s 35-year history, the Inspector General suspects that more than 500,000 Americans have been affected.
The price, output and acreage effects of a GMO ban
08 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of regulation, environmental economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, population economics, technological progress Tags: agricultural economics, expressive voting, extreme poverty, global hunger, global poverty, GMOs, Left-wing hypocrisy, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, The Great Fact
Organic farming is a gift….
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C. S. Prakash (@AgBioWorld) June 05, 2015
Projected increases in corn and soy prices in a world without GMOs
ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/2049… http://t.co/PNydjpl59K—
C. S. Prakash (@AgBioWorld) June 08, 2015
If you outlaw GMOs, be prepared to bring millions of acres of forest land, cropland & pasture under farming http://t.co/H9ftkxhXYe—
C. S. Prakash (@AgBioWorld) June 08, 2015
If GMOs are banned today in the US, what would be the crop yield reduction? http://t.co/pEn73PODcR—
C. S. Prakash (@AgBioWorld) June 08, 2015
How to argue for doing nothing about global warming when arguing for a climate club enforced by green tariffs!
08 Jun 2015 1 Comment
in environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: climate treaties, club goods, free-riders, global warming, green tariffs, international public goods
The best case I’ve seen recently for doing nothing about global warming was put by those arguing with the greatest sincerity and considerable technical skill that the next international climate treaty should be built around a climate club of those that comply with its obligations with green tariffs on those who do not join.
I have long argued that green tariffs are the only reason to do anything about climate change. Much better to collect the revenue ourselves than let it go into the pockets of a foreign taxman.
William Nordhaus has proposed climate clubs as a way of overcoming free riding in international climate negotiations. Specifically, the international climate treaty should authorise members to impose green tariffs on non-members to encourage them to impose their own carbon taxes and carbon emission targets. This has been done before with the Montréal protocol on CFCs. To encourage the phase-out of CFCs countries that did not commit to do so simply could not trade in those goods with members of the club.
via Climate Deal Badly Needs a Big Stick – NYTimes.com.
4%! A 4% global green tariff is all that is necessary under a climate change treaty that proposes that a carbon price of $50 to apply globally! A 4% green tariff is hardly worth worrying about considering tariffs used to be much much higher than that.
Given all the stories of why woe and doom touted out by the climate alarmists, climate salvation and the keys to environmental heaven should cost much more than 4% tax?! Your sins are forgiven for a 4% green tariff! Big problems such as a climate crisis are not solved with a 4% green tariff.
I think this green tariff of 4% is an own goal. It reinforces the clear message from the economics of climate change that global warming is actually a small economic problem not a large one.
For developed countries, global warming will be at most a minor irritant. For developing countries, their best solution and the solution they have most control over is to develop faster and become a developed country.
In which Anglo-Saxon country is full-time work not enough to escape family poverty on the minimum wage?
07 Jun 2015 1 Comment
in labour economics, minimum wage, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, population economics, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: earned income tax credit, poverty traps, single parents, taxation and the labour supply, welfare state
Figure 1: Weekly working hours needed at minimum-wage to move above a 50% relative poverty line after taxes, mandatory social or private contributions payable by workers, and family benefits for lone parent with two children, Anglo-Saxon countries, 2013
Supply-side economics and the migration of inventors
07 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, entrepreneurship, fiscal policy, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: economics of migration, taxation and the labour supply
#Braindrain is real, even quantifiable — as per NBER paper 21024. Geniuses don't tolerate extra taxes easily. http://t.co/HVP8uEFAfz—
Amity Shlaes (@AmityShlaes) June 07, 2015
Rise of private R&D and the fall of public R&D
06 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, politics - USA, rentseeking, survivor principle, technological progress Tags: creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, private R&D, public R&D, R&D
Vast right-wing conspiracy alert: economists must be double secret Republicans!
05 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in labour economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: vast right-wing conspiracy, voted demographics
There were 2,412 donations from Economists, in the last two election cycles. They gave 3 times as often to Democrats. http://t.co/c8tnQ9Vv15—
Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) June 03, 2015
via How Democratic or Republican is your job? This tool tells you. – The Washington Post.
Is there a Republican sociologist in America?
05 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in occupational choice, politics - USA, population economics, Public Choice Tags: campaign finance regulation, voted demographics
Exactly one person identified themselves as a sociologist & gave money to Republicans (in the past 2 election cycles) http://t.co/JP9RAoRgiF—
Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) June 04, 2015
Economists are actually centre-left but are conservative compared to anthropologists
04 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in economics, labour economics, occupational choice, personnel economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: academic bias, voter demographics
Verdant Labs published charts on the average political affiliations of various professions. Data from the Federal Election Commission on contributions to political parties was used that information as a proxy for political views. The ratios are Democrats (blue) vs. Republicans (red).
via Chart: The most liberal and conservative jobs in America – The Washington Post.
The surprising divergences in the congressional gender gap by party
04 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in politics - USA, population economics, Public Choice Tags: gender gap
Why the pipeline of GOP female politicians is dry: Too few are highly conservative. nyti.ms/1Fp4JNW http://t.co/kst4so4kyH—
The Upshot (@UpshotNYT) June 01, 2015
Unions have been on the way out for a long time
03 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, labour economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, unions Tags: the withering away of the proletariat, union power, union wage premium
The economics of low wages: When what comes down doesn’t go up econ.st/1zlP1G0 http://t.co/AujgeDIAUX—
The Economist (@EconEconomics) May 02, 2015
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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