Eric Crampton
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Economist. Head of Research with The New Zealand Initiative in Wellington. Adjunct Senior Fellow, University of Canterbury
Economist. Head of Research with The New Zealand Initiative in Wellington. Adjunct Senior Fellow, University of Canterbury
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Water water everywhere
And oh the trolls did shriek. Over at the Christchurch Press , I went through the current controversies about an Ashburton water bottling plant. New Zealand allocates water drawing rights through a consenting system. Government allocates drawing rights for ...
And oh the trolls did shriek. Over at the Christchurch Press , I went through the current controversies about an Ashburton water bottling plant. New Zealand allocates water drawing rights through a consenting system. Government allocates drawing rights for ...
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The UBI and the political constraint
I walk through the basics on universal basic incomes over at The Spinoff . After explaining Milligan's impossible trinity, I note the political constraint that I think blocks Gareth Morgan's proposed UBI. Morgan's proposed UBI would leave some very poor fam...
I walk through the basics on universal basic incomes over at The Spinoff . After explaining Milligan's impossible trinity, I note the political constraint that I think blocks Gareth Morgan's proposed UBI. Morgan's proposed UBI would leave some very poor fam...
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IPUMS envy
A couple weeks back , I couldn't get NZ Census data going back earlier than the 1996 Census. I'd then asked one of The Initiative's researchers, who's better on Stats NZ data than I am, to see whether he could find data going farther back. He couldn't. Stat...
A couple weeks back , I couldn't get NZ Census data going back earlier than the 1996 Census. I'd then asked one of The Initiative's researchers, who's better on Stats NZ data than I am, to see whether he could find data going farther back. He couldn't. Stat...
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Risky diagnoses
When you're cautious in taking sexual risks, you help both yourself and your partners. The former effect can be purely selfish optimisation. The latter could be due to other-regarding preferences in relationships where you care about the other person, or ju...
When you're cautious in taking sexual risks, you help both yourself and your partners. The former effect can be purely selfish optimisation. The latter could be due to other-regarding preferences in relationships where you care about the other person, or ju...
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Inputs and Outputs: Soda Tax edition
My flight back from Auckland over the weekend, cramped into a window seat with a large individual in the middle seat and nobody at all in the aisle seat, had me thinking again about soda and fat taxes. I simply don't buy most of the fiscal externality argum...
My flight back from Auckland over the weekend, cramped into a window seat with a large individual in the middle seat and nobody at all in the aisle seat, had me thinking again about soda and fat taxes. I simply don't buy most of the fiscal externality argum...
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Against hypothecation
One of the big reasons I don't like hypothecated taxes - taxes that are tied to particular projects - is that they lead to nonsense like this: Would you support a soda tax? What if it was used to support universal pre-k? https://t.co/l36a7O9yVD pic.twitter....
One of the big reasons I don't like hypothecated taxes - taxes that are tied to particular projects - is that they lead to nonsense like this: Would you support a soda tax? What if it was used to support universal pre-k? https://t.co/l36a7O9yVD pic.twitter....
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Learning from Canada: Refugee edition
Most of the time, I'm lauding how New Zealand gets things right that Canada messes up. The GST, no agricultural subsidies, low tariffs, parallel importation, open internal labour markets and lack of trade barriers between Otago and Wellington - NZ has a lot...
Most of the time, I'm lauding how New Zealand gets things right that Canada messes up. The GST, no agricultural subsidies, low tariffs, parallel importation, open internal labour markets and lack of trade barriers between Otago and Wellington - NZ has a lot...
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Disqus issues
I apologise for some ongoing technical issues with Disqus. A while back, Disqus stopped playing nice with the mobile version of Offsetting. Those comments have been going into the standard Blogger comments rather than into Disqus, and so aren't seen on the ...
I apologise for some ongoing technical issues with Disqus. A while back, Disqus stopped playing nice with the mobile version of Offsetting. Those comments have been going into the standard Blogger comments rather than into Disqus, and so aren't seen on the ...
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Otago Public Health, again.
Otago Public Health just advances from strength to strength, doesn't it? Here's their latest groundbreaking research. In an online survey of smokers, they find that smokers don't like cigarettes that have been made especially ugly. And so they recommend th...
Otago Public Health just advances from strength to strength, doesn't it? Here's their latest groundbreaking research. In an online survey of smokers, they find that smokers don't like cigarettes that have been made especially ugly. And so they recommend th...
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GAI
There's a lot to like about a guaranteed annual income. Or, at least, there would be if it were feasible and affordable. I don't think it can be both. Let's recap. On Friday, Labour released a discussion document on the GAI. The document is much better than...
There's a lot to like about a guaranteed annual income. Or, at least, there would be if it were feasible and affordable. I don't think it can be both. Let's recap. On Friday, Labour released a discussion document on the GAI. The document is much better than...
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