Prolific blogger and Member for Fraser Andrew Leigh has posted his June reading list:
It’s been over a month since I last posted about the things I’ve been reading. But while I can’t promise that these articles appeared yesterday, I can attest to the freshness of their ideas:
- From the Journal of Politics: ‘the political similarity of spouses derives in part from initial mate choice rather than persuasion and accommodation over the life of the relationship’
- A new World Bank study shows the impact of educational attainment on growth and inequality in developing countries
- A cost-benefit analysis of US homeland security (HT: Saul Eslake)
- Economists analyse the 2010 World Series of Poker, and find that poker is a game of skill, not just luck
- Jeff Borland suggests four ways to boost workforce participation rates
- Ralph Johnstone looks at discrimination against professional African jobseekers
- The impact of America’s 21 year-old drinking age on nonfatal injury and crime
- John List offers an overview of the economics of charitable giving
- When do negative campaign ads reduce turnout? (answer: if they attack a candidate that people have already decided to support)
- The job market for African-Australian professionals
- The evolution of cooperation
- Getting academics more engaged in the policy process
- The OECD’s Better Life Index (aka pick your social welfare function). (HT: Dan Andrews)
- Matt Morris on PNG and the ‘resource curse’
- Election betting in interwar Britain
- Washington DC’s IMPACT teacher evaluation metric
- Maternity leave and children’s cognitive development – evidence from Canada
- PISA and the uber-impressive Andreas Schleicher
- Optimal randomised policy trials
- The Grattan Institute looks at Australians’ housing preferences
- Understanding the financial crisis through daily happiness surveys (and some evidence that asking people about politics makes them sad)
No Stieg Larsson?
