Economics and Parenting

RNZ: Nights | 21 January 2020 | 0h 22m | Listen Later
Interview with Eric Crampton applying an economist’s perspective to parenting. Covers choosing names; the implication from twin studies that parenting investments have limited payoffs in later-life outcomes; and using written bids to optimally allocate household chores. Draws on his article The Tender Years.

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Tim Does the Haka in New Zealand

Heritage Explains | 13 September 2019 | 0h 19m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Eric Crampton about his essay The Outside of the Asylum. An outsider’s view on what makes life in New Zealand (freedoms, politics and economics) so much saner than elsewhere.

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