Eric Crampton • May 09, 2015 •
Bryan Caplan asks:Pro-life utilitarians are very scarce. A philosophy professor recently told me that he knows of zero pro-life utilitarians in the entire philosophy profession. This is deeply puzzling. While I'm n... Read More
Eric Crampton • Aug 04, 2014 •
Paul Ryan's welfare plan, including stronger reliance on case managers to guide clients out of income support and into work, reminds me an awful lot of the Beaulier and Caplan piece on behavioural economics and welfare. It was published in Kyklos; the link above goes to the ungated version.I'd paraphrased their paper a few years ago:If we … Read More
Eric Crampton • Apr 17, 2014 •
College grads earn more than those who don't go to college. Does it follow that governments should encourage more kids into university? Not necessarily. Bryan Caplan here points to work by Eberly and Athreya showing that while the college premium ... Read More
Eric Crampton • Oct 24, 2013 •
Am I the only one who read the various stories on impending social collapse in Japan and reckoned there to be a potentially large opportunity for a firm that would be happy to hire women on flex-time arrangements? Tyler pointed to one story yesterday;... Read More
Eric Crampton • Nov 21, 2012 •
Bryan Caplan tells us that because the return to parental input is low, we can all ease up on the parental production function. Parents agonise about whether they're doing enough; the ones who do so-agonise are usually doing far too much on any rationa... Read More