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Monthly Archives: 2014-06
8 published posts from 2014-06.
Open Data and the G20
From a recent column for the AFR . The report can be downloaded here . Earlier this year our Treasurer, Joe Hockey, led the G20 Finance Ministers to pledge lifting GDP by 2 percent over ‘business as usual’ over the next five years. It’s a big win for the Treasurer, but how can...
Clever new piece of work on what drove the industrial revolution
Human Capital and Industrialization: Evidence from the Age of Enlightenment by Mara P. Squicciarini, Nico Voigtlaender - #20219 (DAE EFG) Abstract: While human capital is a strong predictor of economic development today, its importance for the Industrial Revolution is typicall...
Posted in History, Economics and public policy, Innovation
Is the struggle for equality of opportunity over?
Equality of opportunity was one of the big themes of Gough Whitlam's 1969 and 1972 campaigns. His 1972 policy speech promised "a new drive for equality of opportunities" through reforms to education, health and urban planning. He argued that opportunity depends on the kind of...
Posted in Uncategorized
How to lie with statistics: the case of female hurricanes.
I just came across an article in PNAS (the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) with the catchy title 'Female Hurricanes are deadlier than male hurricanes'. It is doing the rounds in the international media , with the explicit conclusion that our society suffers fr...
Posted in Uncategorized
Do people know what's good for them - or their children. (Hint: Not always)
Human Capital Effects of Anti-Poverty Programs: Evidence from a Randomized Housing Voucher Lottery by Brian Jacob, Max Kapustin, Jens Ludwig - #20164 (CH ED HE PE) Abstract: Whether government transfer programs increase the human capital of low-income children is a question of...
Posted in Education, Economics and public policy
Are we nearly there yet?
And the US has had better growth than Japan or Europe!
Posted in Economics and public policy
What are the likely consequences of HECS fee liberalisation?
The Australian government education minister Christopher Pyne has made his wishes clear for the tertiary education sector: he is following the wishes of the GO8 Vice-Chancellors and wants to remove the caps from the HECS fees asked of domestic students. This seems to fit in a...
Posted in Uncategorized