A few links that have caught my fancy:
Economics:
Environment:
Education:
Community:
Economics:
- The high cost of remittances - did you know it costs $39 to transfer $200 from Australia to PNG? (HT: Sinclair Davidson)
- Perverse impacts of tomorrow's US inheritance tax reinstatement (with a nameless mention of myAustralia study with Joshua Gans)
- McCloskey on humanomics
- Ross Gittins end-of-year speech, courtesy of Peter Martin (I disagree with a few things Ross says, but it's well worth a read)
- Krugman on Quiggin's zombies
- Mexican growth (and what it means for China's long-term future)
Environment:
- What Australian politicians believe (and know) about climate change
- A US review paper (JEL) on economic issues in climate change mitigation
Education:
- The economic value of higher teacher quality
- Low graduation rates at some US colleges (has anyone crunched these data for Australia?)
- The essentials for databases that support US school reform
- Challenges with New York's use of test scores to evaluate teacher performance
Community:
- The Sharehood is working to connect neighbours in Melbourne
- Richard Curtain on cash-on-delivery aid
- When cities provide great data, IT boffins can create great apps (note to my ACT colleagues: can we please make similar data public for Canberra?)
- A new UK cabinet office paper on charitable giving
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