Who Should Own and Control Urban Water Systems? Historical Evidence from England and Wales by Brian Beach, Werner Troesken, Nicola Tynan - #22553 (DAE HE PE) Abstract: Nearly 40% of England's privately built waterworks were municipalised in the late 19th century. We examine ho...

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https://vimeo.com/178401582 Readers of this blog will be familiar with Family by Family , the service which matches families up with other families in coached, mentoring relationships to help families through tough times and lower the risk of them falling into crisis with all...

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Growing Apart, Losing Trust? The Impact of Inequality on Social Capital There is a widespread perception that trust and social capital have declined in United States as well as other advanced economies, while income inequality has tended to increase. While previous research ha...

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Unintended Consequences of Rewards for Student Attendance: Results from a Field Experiment in Indian Classrooms by Sujata Visaria, Rajeev Dehejia, Melody M. Chao, Anirban Mukhopadhyay - #22528 (CH DEV ED) In an experiment in non-formal schools in Indian slums, a reward scheme...

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Family Descent as a Signal of Managerial Quality: Evidence from Mutual Funds by Oleg Chuprinin, Denis Sosyura - #22517 (LS) We study the relation between mutual fund managers' family backgrounds and their professional performance. Using hand-collected data from individual Cens...

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Available here . by David Figlio, Paola Giuliano, Umut Ozek, Paola Sapienza - #22541 (CH ED LS POL) We use remarkable population-level administrative education and birth records from Florida to study the role of Long-Term Orientation on the educational attainment of immigrant...

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I'm pleased to see Jason Potts tweeting "Blogs are still a thing. This one I just came across is the thingest. It's like @slatestarcodex, but for econ & tech artir.wordpress.com". As a result of tweeting back my 2009 post on Blogging the crisis , I re-read it. Sometimes I'm su...

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Below is an essay by me and Chris Vanstone (Chief Innovation Officer of The Australian Centre for Social Innovation (TACSI) published in two parts by The Mandarin. Devoutly confessing that you do not know is better than prematurely claiming that you do Augustine “Mark well tha...

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It's not often that I agree with hyper-ventilating Murdoch columnist Andrew Bolt, but his column this week on the Don Dale Centre juvenile detention controversy is a useful antidote to the equally hyperbolic reactions of most commentators to ABC journalist Caro Meldrum-Hanna's...

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One for the Clever Country culture warriors The Economic Impact of Universities: Evidence from Across the Globe by Anna Valero, John Van Reenen - #22501 (ED LS) Abstract: We develop a new dataset using UNESCO source materials on the location of nearly 15,000 universities in ab...

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Festival Website | Films | Schedule Top Picks Neruda (Opening Night) Neruda is a lavishly-mounted re-imagining of the Nobel Prize-winning poet’s pursuit into political exile. It’s 1948, and the Cold War has reached Chile. In Congress, Neruda accuses the left-wing government of...

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The PC has a two-stage reference on increasing the application of competition, contestability and informed user choice in the provision of human services. The first stage will identify the most prospective areas for the application of such principles whilst the second will tel...

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Apropos of my general theory of bullshit - outlined here - here are a few more straws in the wind. Consistent with the theory, the the signal to ideological noise ratio in political speeches has been falling precipitously lately - at least in the US. This has been interpreted...

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Income inequality is associated with stronger social comparison effects: The effect of relative income on life satisfaction , Cheung, Felix; Lucas, Richard E. Abstract Previous research has shown that having rich neighbors is associated with reduced levels of subjective well-b...

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