When policy trades off fewer highly-visible directly-caused headline deaths for thousands more silent deaths.

Terrific thread by Noah Smith 🐇 analyzing our research of how people misperceive immigrants, their education, origins, reliance on government transfers and how this can negatively affect support for redistribution in western countries bopinion @BloombergQuint Harvard Inequality | HKS Stone Program

TARC 8th Annual Conference: 23rd and 24th April 2020 - Registration Open!! We are delighted to announce that registration for this year's Conference is now open!! Further details and how to register: tarc.exeter.ac.uk/events/researc…. We look forward to welcoming you to Exeter!

La busta arancione tanto annuciata, non è ancora stata spedita. Per educare i futuri pensionati serve una "Greta Thumberg" del sistema previdenziale? lavoce.info/archives/63493…

Washing in the name of... On this occasion it's best you do what they tell ya

No one should ever say that a policy is a good idea because it is "good for the economy" or "efficient." The only thing that matters is human flourishing. Yes, they are related. But the shorthand "the economy" leads to mistaken thinking and stupidity.

Here are some thoughts on why getting governments to coordinate their responses to the virus is vital to both saving lives and minimizing economic damage: news.stanford.edu/?p=33047 via Stanford University

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New evidence from Rees-Jones, D'Attoma, Amedeo Piolatto and Luca Salvadori showing that real and perceived exposure to COVID-19 consequences is associated with higher support for expansions to unempl. insurance and public healthcare nber.org/papers/w27865 #COVID19 #researchpaper

Looking forward to #TARCConf2020 and to papers presented by on Twitter @mazharwaxim Thiess Buettner 🇪🇺🇩🇪 Duccio Gamannossi degl'Innocenti and of course the keynote by Judith Freedman

Thanks to @mazharwaxim Thiess Buettner 🇪🇺🇩🇪 Duccio Gamannossi degl'Innocenti for their fascinating presentations. Still lots of interesting speakers today including keynote Judith Freedman and more till Thursday #TARCConf2020 Join us eventbrite.com/e/tax-administ…

Tough on crime guys and tough on evasion guys are not that different really - both salivate over the prospect of a ruthless enforcer going after the perps In each case, the boring correct approach is to reduce opportunities and incentives for crime as much as you can

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Do you teach or study intermediate Microeconomics, or, Advanced Micro course for undergraduates? Osborne and Rubinstein revised "Models in Microeconomic Theory" is free downloadable for you and your students from my homepage (see first comment).

Delighted to be awarded Reviewer of the Year 2023/24 by @JOTA, and proud to contribute to the critical process of peer review! 🎉📚