The gender gap in housework narrows as men in Germany approach and enter retirement family-studies.org/how-mens-retir… http://t.co/5Q8IaHkSC4—
Inst. Family Studies (@FamStudies) May 04, 2015
Why do middle-aged German men become sensitive new age guys?
24 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, population economics Tags: economics of family, Germany, household production, marital division of labour, marriage and divorce
The main drivers of child poverty
15 May 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economics of love and marriage, gender, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, population economics, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, economics of the family, family poverty, marriage and divorce, single mothers, single parents
CHART: Black Illegitimacy Rate Went from < 20% in 1950 to 75.2% in 2010. Has Obama ever mentioned that? http://t.co/1UBUQ5aLRi—
Mark J. Perry (@Mark_J_Perry) May 12, 2015
Quotation of the Day from Charles Murray http://t.co/Y8W6xGjRPO—
Mark J. Perry (@Mark_J_Perry) May 12, 2015
The Great Escape = a big increase in life expectancy inequality
13 May 2015 Leave a comment
In 1800 the global average life expectancy was 32.
Global health inequality was low – no country had over 40 years! http://t.co/BRpzvw9XJA—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) May 11, 2015
@MaxCRoser Now over the last decades many caught up – and inequality is declining. While average is now much higher. http://t.co/NDmWzivrhs—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) May 11, 2015
Would you step into a time machine to go back to the 70s glory days?
11 May 2015 2 Comments
in applied welfare economics, economic history, population economics, technological progress Tags: good old days, middle class stagnation, The Great Enrichment, time machine, wage stagnation
Apparently, we are not a cent better off compared to the 70s because all the income gains, every single cent, went into the pockets of the top 10%, if Senator Warren is to be believed in her recent Washington post op-ed.
If you’re willing to put your money where your grumpy socialist mouth is, you would step into a time machine to go back to the 70s because that would make you wealthier.
A way to grasp the conceptual difficulties of measuring changes in living standards and life expectancies across the decades is to step into Brad De Long’s time machine.
In this thought experiment, De Long asks how much you would want in additional income to agree to go back in time to a specific year. De Long was an economic historian examining the differences in American living standards since 1900.
Of course, to work how much you would want be paid (or were willing to pay to go back to the Senator Warren’s better times in the 1970), if you used a less biased estimate of price inflation, the answer is steady increases in incomes for the last 25 years so you would want to be paid.
Senator Warren’s linked article actually confirms the same results. For after-tax incomes, everybody is noticeably richer than 30 years ago, especially if you’re a woman.
Senior citizen socialists should take care and think deeply about entering that time machine. It might mean instant death for them because of higher life expectancy is now as compared to the 1970s.
When you do step into that time machine be very picky about what part of the USA you go to if you like air conditioning. There wasn’t as much air conditioning in homes in the 1970s as compared to day, especially if you were poor.
Another thing is, don’t expect to take that many trips. Air travel was not as common in the 70s. Airline deregulation was at the very end of the 1970s.
To add to your boredom in your spare time, your chances of owning a car was a lot less back then than now despite Senator Warren’s assurance that there has been no income growth for the bottom 90% in the last 30 to 40 years. She said that, not me.
As for lifting yourself up in life, and living the American dream, which was the title of Senator Warren’s op-ed? You were much more likely to not go to college back in the glory days of the 70s than now, especially if you were poor.
The most curious anomaly in Senator Warren’s arguments is that many consumer goods are fallen rapidly in price over the last 40 years, but people are somehow unable to buy them from the same fixed income.
via America’s Growing Income Gap, by the Numbers – ProPublica and U.S. Wages Are Historically Great, Or They’re Awful. It Depends on Your Preferred Inflation Measure – Real Time Economics – WSJ.
Women and Social Mobility – Key Facts
11 May 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, population economics Tags: gender wage gap
How are today's baby boomer women faring compared to their #mothers? Check out these 6 facts: brook.gs/1J2Hq1l http://t.co/DMZG536cE3—
Brookings (@BrookingsInst) May 11, 2015
1. Today’s working women (henceforth described as “daughters”) have higher wages than their mothers – but do not have higher wages than their fathers. Men have higher wages than both their fathers and their mothers.
2. The poorest women are doing best. 80% of daughters raised in the bottom quintile have higher wages than their fathers did. (h/t Scott Winship)
3. “Men’s wages remain more important to increasing couples’ family income,” despite “women’s significant generational gains” …
4. Women who grew up in households where their mother did not work actually have the highest family incomes today—but not because they themselves earn more. Daughters’ individual incomes do not vary significantly by mother’s work status, but family income does—suggesting that daughters whose mothers didn’t work have higher earning husbands. (Catherine Rampell discovered this by asking Pew to split out their analyses by mothers’ labor choices.) Perhaps those raised in more traditional settings are more likely to replicate a traditional division of labor?
via via Women and Social Mobility: Six Key Facts | Brookings Institution.
The populations of Southeast Asia
10 May 2015 Leave a comment
in population economics Tags: demographics, Southeast Asia
Two different ways you could fit the population of the United States into Southeast Asia brilliantmaps.com/how-the-us-fit… http://t.co/k8ZBGdLYjT—
Brilliant Maps (@BrilliantMaps) April 18, 2015
When will Paul Ehrlich’s food riots be starting?
05 May 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, population economics, resource economics Tags: agricultural economics, doomsday prophets, ecological economics, Paul Ehrlich, population bomb, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
"Although the size and wealth of the human population has shot up…"—Jesse H. Ausubel. buff.ly/1Gz5vb8 http://t.co/ZvnnhV9aXH—
HumanProgress.org (@humanprogress) April 30, 2015
Despite a recent uptick, food prices have been declining for over a century, says @chellivia: j.mp/1Evos3r http://t.co/perdLhFods—
Cato Institute (@CatoInstitute) April 24, 2015
Even taking population growth into account, food production per person is actually increasing: j.mp/1Qo0fPt http://t.co/VH0NieLMOX—
Cato Institute (@CatoInstitute) April 23, 2015
Climate experts @PaulREhrlich says we all died during the 1980s http://t.co/C7k1Qc4B4O—
Steve Goddard (@SteveSGoddard) May 14, 2015
Japanese population has peaked and is now in rapid decline to 2050
27 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in labour economics, labour supply, population economics Tags: ageing society, economics of fertility, Japan, labour demographics
Japan's projected population through 2050. #dataviz
Source: washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldvie… http://t.co/79DKF0mQTs—
Randy Olson (@randal_olson) January 06, 2015
The rest of Europe can’t expect Germany to keep bailing them out
22 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in Euro crisis, macroeconomics, population economics Tags: ageing society, European Union, Eurosclerosis, France, Germany, labour demographics
BofA-ML: Working age population projections, a serious problem for Germany http://t.co/eStgQePoVP—
Fabrizio Goria (@FGoria) March 30, 2015
There will be a lot of old Japanese by 2050
15 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in population economics Tags: ageing society, Japan
A lot of young adults in Southern Europe still live with their parents
13 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in population economics, urban economics Tags: economics of family, Eurosclerosis, family demographics, housing prices, rent controls, supply of land, zoning
Whatever happened to the population bomb that so troubled the environmentalist doomsday prophets?
09 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth miracles, population economics Tags: activists, cranks, doomsday prophets, population bomb, the economics of fertility
The world is making less people en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fer… | http://t.co/FlgwlrkUJO—
Charts and Maps (@ChartsAndMaps) April 04, 2015
Hans Rosling’s Yardstick of Wealth – Don’t Panic – The Truth About Population
08 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth miracles, population economics
Where are the Chinese and Indian diasporas?
08 Apr 2015 1 Comment
in politics - USA, population economics Tags: China, economics of immigration, India
The distribution (in millions) of the Indian (and Chinese) diaspora across the world (via @TheEconomist) http://t.co/IXtLnZIYqL—
India in Pictures (@indiainpix) July 29, 2014
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