We’re All Gonna Starve!
12 Mar 2018 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, entrepreneurship, growth miracles, health economics, population economics Tags: agricultural economics, green revolution, India, pessimism bias, population bomb
Bigots, left or right, differ in their targets of opportunity, but deep down all are miserable sods looking for someone to bully, abuse and hate
16 Feb 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, population economics, Public Choice Tags: moral psychology, personality psychology, political psychology
The Norwegian taxman provided burglars with shopping lists for 150 years; but also showed burglars (and nosy Parkers) are shy and deterred by the prospect of getting caught!
08 Feb 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of crime, law and economics, population economics

Source: Privacy, what privacy? Many Nordic tax records are a phone call away, Reuters (2016).
US-Mexico border wall faces tough Texas terrain
13 Jan 2018 Leave a comment
in politics - USA, population economics, Public Choice Tags: economics of borders, economics of immigration, illegal immigration
The Euro left is rather intolerant
16 Dec 2017 Leave a comment
in politics - USA, population economics Tags: voter demographics
Hayek Lecture 2017: “Is the World Over or Underpopulated, and How Would We Know?”
26 Nov 2017 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, environmental economics, population economics Tags: The Great Enrichment
Animated world population 1950-2100
24 Nov 2017 Leave a comment
in economic history, population economics
Since the 1960s, fathers doubled the time they spend on housework and tripled their hours of childcare
19 Nov 2017 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of love and marriage, gender, labour supply, occupational choice, population economics
New Zealand’s population pyramid compared
23 Sep 2017 Leave a comment
in labour supply, population economics

Young people report being happier than older groups
26 Aug 2017 Leave a comment
in labour economics, population economics
Are the @NZGreens @Metiria ok with mum of 10 not naming father?
27 Jul 2017 Leave a comment
in labour economics, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand, population economics, poverty and inequality Tags: deadbeat dads, expressive voting, New Zealand Greens, single mothers

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NZ more homeless than Mexico? @MaxRashbrooke @EricCrampton @tslumley
21 Jul 2017 Leave a comment
in politics - New Zealand, population economics, poverty and inequality Tags: homelessness
https://twitter.com/MPD_NZ/status/887960123259277312

Source: OECD Affordable Housing Database – http://oe.cd/ahd OECD – Social Policy Division – Directorate of Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Last updated on 21/02/2017 HC3.1 HOMELESS POPULATION via http://www.oecd.org/social/affordable-housing-database.htm

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