Is marriage good for kids?. Arguing with Gary Becker about the economics of the family is a risky strategy at best, but when I read this: Virtually all studies show that children brought up in intact families do better at school, and have fewer drug and delinquency problems, than do children whose parents divorced or never married. However, that evidence…
Why you should give your assets to your grandparents. I’m sure people who are more tax-savvy than me have been thinking about this for a while, but it just occurred to me. Unlike virtually all OECD countries, Australia has no inheritance tax, and we do not tax realised capital gains at death. Which means that if you have a share…
Aussie rules program lifting school attendance, director says. Abc.net.au - Sat Mar 24, 04:40 am GMT [News4Sites - Australia Education]
Professor Howard Gardner is at it again, never ceasing to create innovative approaches to traditional conceptions of thinking and learning. His groundbreaking theory of multiple intelligences spawned a re-evaluation of school curricula, highlighting the importance of including the arts and culture in mainstream learning. Recently, at the annual conference of the National Association of Laboratory Schools (NALS), co-hosted by the…
World ocean forum online event. On February 27-28th, 2007, The World Ocean Observatory presents a unique opportunity for secondary students to participate in a global online webcast exploring the issue of High Seas Fisheries. Attendees of this 45 minute event will participate in real time in an interactive presentation and discussion with leading world experts. [School Education Headlines]
Lloyd's Using Google Earth for Insurance Visualizations. Lloyd's has announced plans to offer agents and underwriters the means to see LloydŴ
US Migration Patterns in Google Earth. Google Earth Community (GEC) member 'giasen', who produced the cool-looking world oil consumption charts last month, has now used his exploding 3D shape charts technique to show US migration patterns . Taking data from moving company United Van Lines for 2006, he shows for each state of the US "inbound shipments minus outbound shipments…
An untold story UserLand. What a long story, and today I can tell a piece of it that has had to remain under wraps for the last year or so. First, a summary of how UserLand came to be. In 1988, I had an idea for scripting software on the Macintosh. I loved the Mac for its graphic ease of…
Top Incomes in Indonesia. Pierre van der Eng and I have a new paper out, looking at inequality in Indonesia. Entitled-Top Incomes in Indonesia, 1920-2004, it uses a combination of taxation statistics and survey data to estimate how-the share of the very richest has changed over time. Our abstract: Using taxation and household survey data, this paper estimates top income…