Archive for April 7th, 2008
April Snow
’nuff said.
links for 2008-04-07
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At Baylor University, assistant professors who came up for tenure this year believe that not only did they face a higher hurdle, but they were forced to jump while blindfolded.
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Genom att sänka en skatt som inte har med arbete eller andra prestationer att göra skapas en ren inkomsteffekt. Man får helt enkelt mer att leva för. Det normala sättet att reagera är då att konsumera mer. Men vad konsumera när man är runt 60 och
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Subventioner till bostadssektorn har under lång tid snedvridit relativpriserna, så att vi konsumerar lite mer boendeyta och lite mindre av allt annat.
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this paper written by the finnish researchers Markus Jäntti (Åbo Akademi University, Turku and WIDER, Helsinki), Juho Saari (University of Turku) and Juhana Vartiainen (Trade Union Institute for Economic Research, Stockholm) in November 2005: equity has
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My hunch is a cohort effect. The quant folks got a big prestige boost in the 1970s because regression was hard to do and required fancy computers. The availability of mass data sets allowed quant folks to quickly churn out a lot of good stuff. By the 1990
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RAND Research Brief | Population Implosion? Low Fertility and Policy Responses in the European UnionThis study showed that, under certain conditions, European governments can successfully confront the looming economic threats of declining fertility rates and ageing populations. Policies that remove workplace and career impediments to childrearing are a
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Across the EU, new asylum applications have fallen dramatically, which some governments attribute to their policy changes. New research shows that tougher policies are indeed deterring asylum seekers, though perhaps less than government ministers would li