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From the comments: Baby Bonus solution

By Joshua Gans On May 24, 2013 · 1 Comment

In the comments on my post last week about the baby bonus removal implementation, Sven Feldmann writes:

The easy solution—which in fact is not ruled out by the quoted policy announcement—would be for all existing baby bonus payments to stop on March 1, 2014. Rather than creating a payment cliff of $3,000 on that date, this would create an (almost) smooth gradient over 6 months starting in Sept. 2013, since the baby bonus is [...]

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Guest post by Robert Slonim on Economic Incentives for Blood Donations

By Paul Frijters On May 24, 2013 · 1 Comment

By Robert Slonim, Professor, University of Sydney School of Economics

Blood shortages remain a large global public health concern with shortages worldwide, often severe in developing countries, and seasonal shortages remain common in many developed countries. With less than 10 percent of the population donating in developing countries, and much less in less wealthy countries, the need for increasing the blood supply remains an important public policy concern.

Institutions such as the World Health Organization [...]

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Tax evasion politics in Brussels

On May 23, 2013 By Paul Frijters

As I said a few months ago, tax evasion is the big cliff in terms of the future of the EU project. It was thus fascinating to see the tax evasion games played out at the latest ‘summit’ In Brussels yesterday.

To understand what really goes on at these summits, imagine yourself to be the PM of a small country that makes a lot of money by the tax avoidance activities of big [...]

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Splendid isolation

On May 21, 2013 By Sam Wylie

Flicking through the channels two nights ago I came across the Eurovision song contest.  That reminded me of what a mismatch Europe is for the UK.  Isn’t it inevitable that the UK will leave the EU eventually?  Europe is on a slow but ineluctable path to much deeper political union.  Some of the current 27 members of the EU will not accept that Union and will chose to, or be forced, to leave.  It is [...]

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Thoughts on Gonski and education reform.

On May 16, 2013 By Paul Frijters

With the Gonski reforms expected to be rolled out across Australia in the coming 5 years, it is handy to reflect on what actually are the basic challenges for school reform in Australia. A view of the underlying issues helps one to judge the likely outcomes of the current reforms and others one might think of.

One can see the main learning challenges in Australian schools as related to the quality of what is taught, [...]

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Timothy Devinney on Overpaid Vice-Chancellors

On May 15, 2013 By Paul Frijters

In an excellent recent piece on his own website, Timothy Devinney looks at how the compensation of Australian Vice Chancellors compares to those of the UK and the US. He gave me permission to re-use his calculations. Below I give you the guts of his story which, if one uses updated figures from the ones he uses, gets you to the realisation that Vice-Chancellors at the GO8 and ‘Technology’ universities get 300% in [...]

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Baby bonus: even as it exits poor implementation continues

On May 14, 2013 By Joshua Gans

Sigh. Heavy sigh. Sometimes you have to wonder whether anyone is listening. The baby bonus will finally be scrapped with the $5000 payment (already changed to means tested and paid over time) being replaced essentially by its predecessor. The 10 year policy is over.

But when will it be over?

“Outlining a plan to deliver a tiny surplus of less than $1 billion in the third year of the [...]

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Andrew Leigh and Adrian Pagan on our Book

On May 13, 2013 By Paul Frijters

The book launch tour of Australia ended last week with a visit to the Melbourne Institute, where Deborah Cobb-Clark kindly hosted the last in our marathon-series of 5 launches. They all were a great success, with the publisher actually running out of books for the last one and thus having to scramble for extra copies.

What was memorable about the Canberra and Melbourne launches were that the hosts had read the [...]

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Parental Leave on The Drum

On May 9, 2013 By Joshua Gans

Over at ABC’s The Drum today, I write about the Coalition’s parental leave plan.

Abbott’s leave scheme is a step backwards for women

Tony Abbott’s paid parental leave scheme is widely regarded as a boon for women. But will it do anything to address the larger problem of gender discrimination in the workplace? Joshua Gans says it likely will make matters worse.

Parental leave policy is back in the news. The [...]

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How fast is the NBN exposes how bad the policy debate is

On May 8, 2013 By Joshua Gans

There is a new site doing the rounds on Facebook: howfastisthenbn.com.au. It comes the ALP and Coalition’s NBN plans and surprise-surprise, the ALP’s one is much faster.

So here are the activities that are compared:

uploading wedding photos to Facebook Downloading Game of Thrones Uploading a new puppy video to YouTube Syncing engineering designs with Dropbox

The biggest public expenditure in Australia’s recent history is going to [...]

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