The Elephant Diagram… Hans Rosling, Elephants and Pizza

ECON 3235: The Rising Latin American Middle class

 

Daude, Christian, Nora Lustig, Angel Melguizo, and Jose Ramon Perea (2017) “On the middle 70%. The impact of fiscal policy on the emerging middle class in Latin America using Commitment to Equity.” (2017).

 

New Immigration Research

The public debate over the proposed RAISE Act which would cut legal immigration in half has
generated broad opposition from researchers and advocates. Time Magazine ran a nice article
by Jasso

 
Time Magazine, The plan to cut legal family immigration may leave America’s workforce less skilled
http://ti.me/2ur5E1d
 

To counter the misinformed and misguided Trump-Sessions-Miller attacks on U.S. immigration, research new and old is getting more attention.

In response the RAISE proposal (don’t ask)

A Freakonomics rerun from last November “How to Make a Bad Decision” discusses how different judges decide asylum cases…
…strategy, which my brain is not very good at doing. Most people’s brains are not.
DUBNER: It’s an interesting paradox, that it takes a pretty smart person to recognize how…”How to Make a Bad Decision”
November 16, 2016 @ 11:00pm by STEPHEN J. DUBNER

Robert Putnam on Social trust

 
Time Magazine, The plan to cut legal family immigration may leave America’s workforce less skilled
http://ti.me/2ur5E1d
 

Social Capital and immigration

 

Robert Putnam discusses diversity and trust (social capital)

 

 

The next

Santana, Maria, Maria (Westside story, new version?)

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Stop Ebola song

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