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Alessina, Ichino and Karabarbounis arguing for gender based taxation, on VoxEU. This recent CEPR working paper has the details. Their modelling is very basic (one obvious extension to make this more realistic– probably requiring a lot of effort– should be to allow for frictions in the search & matching of agents on the marriage market), but still makes for super interesting research with (potential) serious policy implications.
Category: Netherlands
Beware the Euronomics. Plus some further thoughts on the economics curricula in Romania and The Netherlands
Retain at least the conclusion of this excellent article (applying, unfortunately, well beyond just France and Germany, within EU or Europe in general), which draws attention to the enormous, though often neglected*, importance of (high) school economics education, with emphasis on the (very real) risks of learning absolute nonsense from state-sponsored economics courses.
→ Read more Probability of being a serial killer: the case of Lucia de Berk
Here’s a post on an extremely interesting story at the intersection of law, statistics and professional ethics in several disciplines. Inter alia, the issue has been covered in some of the best scientific journals.
→ Read more Quote of the week 8th to 14th of April ’07
Esta noche te cruzan
verdes, rojas, azules, rapidísimas
luces extrañas por los ojos.
¿Será tu alma?
¿Son luces de tu alma, si te miro?
Letras son, nombres claros
al revés, en tus ojos.
→ Read more Song of the Day: “When the Lady Smiles”, by Golden Earring
Despite the fact that Viacom is sueing the hell out of YouTube and a lot of good videoclips had to be consequently removed, the show must/will go on! Long live YouTube!
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