Australia must be welcoming of migrants more than most

01 Apr 2024 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in human capital, labour economics, labour supply, politics - Australia, population economics Tags: ,

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Three Snapshots of Where US Population is Headed

29 Feb 2024 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic history, environmental economics, labour economics, labour supply, population economics Tags: , , ,

The Congressional Budget Office has published The Demographic Outlook: 2024 to 2054 (January 2024), which offers some recent history and projections of how the US population is evolving. Here are three snapshots: The Role of Immigration in Total US Population Growth The black line shows projected US population growth since 2004, with firm data up…

Three Snapshots of Where US Population is Headed

Lifespans of the rich and famous, from 800-1800 C.E.

27 Feb 2024 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic history, population economics Tags:

Life expectancy is one of the key statistics in human wellbeing. However, we know surprisingly little about life expectancy prior to the systematic recording of births, deaths, and marriages, which began in England in 1538 with the establishment of parish registers. Many other countries started recording this data, but later in the 16th Century (or…

Lifespans of the rich and famous, from 800-1800 C.E.

Changing times

21 Feb 2024 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic history, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, population economics Tags: ,

14 Feb 2024 Leave a comment

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Correlations between spouses

11 Feb 2024 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of love and marriage, economics of media and culture, human capital, labour economics, law and economics, population economics Tags:

Correlations between spouses Extraversion: r= .005Neuroticism: .082Height: .227Weight: .154Education: .5Political party: .6 “Mates tend to be positively but weakly concordant on personality and physical traits, but concordance of political attitudes is extremely high” pic.twitter.com/BmdpySfakh — Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson) February 10, 2024

Correlations between spouses

How long have you got?

27 Jan 2024 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in health economics, population economics Tags:

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The population bomb

17 Jan 2024 Leave a comment

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Wrong from the start:

04 Jan 2024 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic history, labour economics, labour supply, population economics, poverty and inequality Tags: , , ,

In 1798, Thomas Malthus told the world to expect collapse – “Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.”

Claims about Japanese immigration

26 Dec 2023 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in human capital, labour economics, labour supply, population economics Tags:

Japan will become an immigration powerhouse. Before the pandemic, the country was on track to accept about 150,000 new non-Japanese employees per year. This more than doubled to almost 350,000 in the first half of 2023. There are now approximately 3.2 million non-Japanese residents of Japan, up from barely half a million 30 years ago. […]

Claims about Japanese immigration

David D. Friedman – The Externality problem: Population, Climate, Pandemic

19 Oct 2023 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, development economics, economic history, economics of climate change, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, history of economic thought, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, population economics, property rights, Public Choice

The Puzzle of Falling US Birth Rates since the Great Recession

30 Sep 2023 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in labour economics, labour supply, population economics

That is a new JEP piece by Melissa S. Kearney, Phillip B. Levine, and Luke Pardue.  The piece, while not easily summarized, is interesting throughout.  Here is one bit: The decline in birth rates has been widespread across the country. Birth rates fell in every state over this period, except for North Dakota. One possible […]

The Puzzle of Falling US Birth Rates since the Great Recession

I like maps

12 Sep 2023 Leave a comment

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Baby Busts and Bank Crashes: A Conversation with Demographer Nicholas Eb…

20 Aug 2023 Leave a comment

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19 Aug 2023 Leave a comment

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