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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
Are we nearly there yet?
And the US has had better growth than Japan or Europe!