via http://www.brainpickings.org/2013/11/13/open-university-history-of-the-english-language-animated/
The History of the English Language, Animated in 10 minutes
28 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, population economics Tags: economics of language, History of English
Average life expectancy for girls born in 2057 will be 100?!
28 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in population economics Tags: life expectancy, The Great Escape
HT: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2912391/Now-s-gran-old-age-Average-life-expectancy-girls-born-2057-ONE-HUNDRED.html
Are you a visual thinker? | Remember faces but not names?
22 Jan 2015 1 Comment
via http://www.sciencedump.com/content/are-you-visual-thinker and http://www.buzzfeed.com/generalelectric/are-you-a-visual-thinker#.fymP8PgPb
The link between parental leave and the gender pay gap | Pew Research Center
19 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour supply, occupational choice, population economics Tags: gender wage gap, Parental leave, unintended consequences
Life expectancy has been improving everywhere for a long time and big time
10 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
The Japanese fertility rates have actually been rising since 1995
08 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, population economics
HT: Noah Smith
How Your Face Shapes Your Economic Chances – The Atlantic
23 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in labour economics, personnel economics, population economics, survivor principle Tags: economics of beauty
Attractive CEOs raise their company’s stock price when they first appear on television, according to a working paper by Joseph T. Halford and Hung-Chia Hsu at the University of Wisconsin.
Taller people are richer. In fact, every inch between 5’7” and 6 feet is “worth” about 2 percent more in average annual earnings.
Being better looking than at least 67 percent of your peers is worth about $230,000 over your lifetime.
Having blond hair is worth as much as a year of school—for women.
Being an obese white woman is particularly punishing for your potential lifetime earnings.
via How Your Face Shapes Your Economic Chances – The Atlantic.
The Great Enrichment: Most gripes about income growth are driven by measurement error
23 Dec 2014 1 Comment
Was Moynihan, right? The role of prospective success in assortative mating in family poverty
19 Dec 2014 1 Comment
Men (No Longer) At Work
19 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in human capital, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, population economics
by Dish Staff
Binyamin Appelbaum looks into the causes of the decline in America’s male work force:
Working, in America, is in decline. The share of prime-age men — those 25 to 54 years old — who are not working has more than tripled since the late 1960s, to 16 percent. … Many men, in particular, have decided that low-wage work will not improve their lives, in part because deep changes in American society have made it easier for them to live without working. These changes include the availability of federal disability benefits; the decline of marriage, which means fewer men provide for children; and the rise of the Internet, which has reduced the isolation of unemployment. …
The resulting absence of millions of potential workers has serious consequences not just for the men and their families but for the nation as a whole. A smaller work force is likely to…
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