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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Persistent Social Networks: Civil War Veterans who Fought Together Co-Locate in Later Life by Dora L. Costa, Matthew E. Kahn, Christopher Roudiez, Sven Wilson - #22397 (AG DAE HE) Abstract: At the end of the U.S Civil War, veterans had to choose whether to return to their prew...
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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmOvEwtDycs] Here at Troppo we have referred to the 'Yes Minister series' many times because of its brilliant commentary on the timeless issues of government, exemplified in the skit above. I have gone through three phases with the serie...
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The following is a guest post by David Morris, Principal Lawyer of the Environmental Defenders Office (NT). The Northern Territory already carries a 1 billion dollar burden for legacy mines. These are mine sites where the company has walked away and left ongoing environmental...
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Economics is famous for its idea - it's better to call it a methodological assumption of some economics - that self-interest is what drives people. But something just as evident about people - and much more unique to our species - is people's tendencies to form stable patterns...
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I'm wondering why the facts and ideas generated in the abstract below aren't higher up the order of proceedings in such things as teaching the economics of industrial organisation, the economics of information. What Hayekian has focused on this? Pathetic that I've not seen thi...
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Via this great column of Ross Douthat, I came upon this really fine essay on The New Ruling Class . On Googling the author it turned out she is an American who lives in Sydney and works for the CIS. The interview of the articles: [audio mp3="http://clubtroppo.ozblogistan.com.a...
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