Monthly Archives January 1970
Educational Catchup Downunder. A wonderfully ambitious paper just published in the new Journal of Human Capital combines school enrollment data and demographic tables to estimate educational attainment rates for 74 countries over the period 1870-2010. HereХ
Google Unveils New Tool To Dig for Public Data . Google launched a new search tool yesterday designed to help Web users find public data that is often buried in hard-to-navigate government Web sites. [Wash Post Technology]
Might as well panic If you don't know what to do, and you're frightened, might as well panic.That seems to be the first rule of being a member of the human race. Apparently, panicking is an acceptable substitute for forethought, contingency planning or actually taking productive action. We almost want to blame the thing we're anxious about on the person…
Infinity--they keep making more of it If you had a little business in a little town, there was a natural limit to your growth. You hit a limit on strangers (no people left to pitch), some became friends, some became customers and you then went delivered as much as you could to this core audience. Every day wasn't spent trying…
Do Smart Parents Raise Smart Kids?. Not surprisingly, the answer is yes. But we might also be interested in magnitudes. A new paper using German data finds a parent-child test score correlation of 0.45, which is bigger than the intergenerational earnings correlation in Germany (about 0.2, I think). So a 10% increase in parentsХ
Apple Posts $1.21 Billion Profit for Q2 2009. The weak economy is hurting Mac sales to professional and educational customers, but consumer sales and the iPhone and iPod touch have lifted Apple to another impressive financial quarter. Ending the second quarter of 2009, Apple reported a $1.21 billion profit on revenue of $8.16 billion, or $1.33 per diluted share (those…
Australia’s $650 million Community Infrastructure Grants. This has come out of the blue - $650 million Jobs Fund announced by the Rudd Government to support local jobs, build skills and improve facilities in local communities. It is part of the Rudd GovernmentŴ
Jobs safe after Pontiac dumped: Holden. CAR maker Holden will lose one of its biggest export models with a move by United States parent company General Motors to dump the Pontiac brand. [Herald Sun | Breaking News]