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National drug policy summit 27 Aug 2013 | 06:18 am
A few assorted observations from today's National Drug Policy Summit in Wellington: Ross Bell and his team pulled together a reasonably diverse group. So it's fun. As with many NZ conferences, and e...
Honi Soit... revisited 23 Aug 2013 | 01:51 am
The shame lies in the mind of the viewer. The University of Sydney's student magazine, Honi Soit, this week had to gather up copies of the current issue. The front cover featured a set of pictures of...
Reader mailbag: LVR edition 22 Aug 2013 | 03:08 am
A loyal reader writes, and I anonymise: My [partner] is a [high ranking title] at [large professional services firm] and over drinks last night the young [professionals in this industry] (under 28, m...
Survey Says 22 Aug 2013 | 02:03 am
More interesting than the "which economist am I most like" part of this rather nifty survey, based on responses to the IGM Economic Experts Panel, is their highlighting of where you differ substantial...
Wednesday roundup 21 Aug 2013 | 05:36 am
A few worthy items in the tabs: Matt Nolan over at TVHE rightly points out the rather large problems with the Reserve Bank of New Zealand's justification for its restriction on highly leveraged home ...
Policy synergies 19 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
Last week, I suggested that any government worried about productivity and health costs of things might wish to encourage that there be more sex. It seems to be good for earnings. Today, Tim Wilson a....
Ratings warning 19 Aug 2013 | 07:35 am
I've done a fair bit of NZ cheerleading. Sadly, I have to warn of a potential downgrade of New Zealand immigration from a "buy" to a "hold". Jason Sorens has moved, at reasonable personal cost, to Ne...
The Social Costs of Abstinence 16 Aug 2013 | 07:52 am
Suppose that the correlation between one's sex life and earnings were actually causal, and worked from sex to income rather than the other way round. What correlation? This one: Having an active sex ...
Keeping it 18 15 Aug 2013 | 06:00 am
New Zealand's reduction in the alcohol purchase age from 20 to 18 did not substantially worsen outcomes for youths. Alcohol consumption did not increase among 18 and 19 year olds subsequent to the cha...
Weak instruments are weak 14 Aug 2013 | 12:00 am
More than a decade ago, back in the advanced econometrics course at George Mason, Thomas Stratmann taught us about the weak instruments problem. Looks like one of these was worse than I'd thought. Su...
