Talked in beautiful Rimini about Tourism and Urban Economics to a room full of freshmen corsi.unibo.it/1cycle/clet/... Slides here floswald.github.io/Tourism-Rimi... with shoutouts to @vlavetyan.bsky.social and @stefanpauly.bsky.social and @milena-almagro.bsky.social and others too

Workers were never well-represented among cabinet ministers globally, but things have deteriorated over time. From our Paths to Power project where we have collected biographical data on almost 45,000 ministers from 137 countries in the period 1966-2021.

An important thread by the brilliant @charlesjkenny.bsky.social has wended its way to this platform 🦋 —>

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Using the results shown below and others, we estimate that couples in Germany act as if they value women's earnings at 48 cents on the Euro, compared to men's earnings. In Sweden, it's 80 cents on the Euro. Full paper here: bit.ly/MTO-T

The EU has collapsing fertility, this is a major macroeconomic crisis, But this FT report is wrong There is not enough evidence that it’s due to climate, the pandemic, and inflation These things are terrible, but that doesn’t make them causal Wild speculation