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November 19, 2021
How do parents of young children get anything done? Even in a two-parent household, the nursery/home-with-fever cycle is relentless (and, in the case of our little one, a little too heavy on the home-with-fever side of the cycle for my liking). Anyway, by my count I’ve got a few hours before I’m str...
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November 15, 2021
Cricket eh? I was *this far* from celebrating a famous Pakistan win over Australia when Matthew Wade decided to make mince meat out of the best bowler in T20 cricket; meanwhile, I messaged a colleague to tell her that England were 9 overs from the World Cup final once again when Jimmy Neesham t...
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November 11, 2021
Today the UK government’s new policy of mandatory vaccination for care home workers takes effect. By the government’s own reckoning this could result in up to 12 percent of workers in residential care settings leaving their jobs. How worried should we be about staff shortages in the care secto...
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November 10, 2021
COP26, like previous UN climate change conferences, has seen no shortage of “big round number” announcements aimed at making a splash in the press and signaling virtuous intent. Such announcements—be they promising $100 billion a year, demanding $1 trillion, or finding an additional £1 billion from ...
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November 05, 2021
Speaking of tax systems, a nice piece from Nishant Yonkan and co-authors (including Branko Milanovic) looks at the discrepancies between survey and tax data to investigate for which populations these data sources disagree and why this disagreement arises. It won’t surprise many to dis...
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October 29, 2021
Hi all, Ah cricket. That magnificent sport that contains all the drama of Lear in a format just as underappreciated. The 20/20 world cup is going on, and while the short form of the game is to Test cricket what an Saturday Night Live skit is to The Tempest, it’s still pretty amazing when done right ...