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Econ grad from Australia interested in public finance and inequality. Also dabble a bit on housing, energy, infra and ag. Views not those of my employer etc.
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I really like this 2021 paper from Norway showing the elegance of universal child benefits compared to kludgy income-tested ones Clear wins for achieving horizontal equity, boosting labour supply, smoothing consumption, reducing exclusion errors

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

The Accepted Manuscript version of my review of Spies-Butcher's new work 'Politics, Inequality and the Australian Welfare State After Liberalisation' is now on my blog if anyone's interested the complex process of liberalisation reforms. www.bevansadvocate.com/p/politics-i...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling the building blocks of life.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

"This tax-and-transfer insurance effect—or the role of the state in reducing adult disadvantages that stem from childhood poverty—matters more than other oft-studied characteristics, such as parental education or marital status, in shaping the U.S. disadvantage compared with peer nations."

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

2024 tax expenditure statement showing super concessions estimated to reach an eye-watering $55 billion in 2024-25, billions higher than the previous estimate Even bigger difference for the forwards too - $63 billion by 2026-27!

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Seems highly contradictory that (a) huge tax concessions for super are often justified on compensatory grounds because being forced to save is welfare detracting and (b) a frequent justification of forced savings is that it's welfare enhancing Am I missing something?

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

WA GST situation is crazy

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

Amazing discovery

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Limitations of markets due to public goods and market failures are well-known, but I really like this framing by Amartya Sen that many of the most significant things in life are not suitable for marketisation

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Happy 400th birthday to the world's old living bond! 🎂🎉🎊 www.ft.com/content/5122...

submitted 82 days ago • 11 comments

A thread of mystifying and hilarious data visualisations from the "Australians" books, published in 1987 by the Australian Government. (originally brought to my attention by @mikejbeggs.bsky.social ) #ausecon #chartcrimes #dataviz 1. Spikes

submitted 89 days ago • 12 comments

There have been two economic charts going semi-viral— or at least what counts as viral for ABS statistics—in the past couple of weeks. Both claim to show a dramatic fall in living standards in Victoria and Australia. Both are wrong. gross.substack.com/p/mean-charts

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Really interesting bit of research on actual vs publicly preferred tax rates in Norway. The gap is mainly driven by changing composition of (differentially taxed) income across the earnings distribution www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

Incredible chart showing how age influences the amount of tax you pay for a given level of income. Difference driven in large part by super concessions/investment earnings Regressive, expensive and without any compelling equity justification

submitted 101 days ago • 2 comments

Excellent Amartya Sen passage on the key question of equality, 'Equality of What?' Almost all normative theories are based on a form of egalitarianism, they just differ on what they focus on providing equal an entitlement of

submitted 102 days ago • 2 comments

Amazing chart. Wheat prices way down from where they were in 1264!

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

New research in Australia on "Income inequality and democratic resilience – Impacts and policy choices" from Nicholas Biddle and Matthew Gray csrm.cass.anu.edu.au/sites/defaul... 1/ of a few

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment

Australia's once universalist family payments system has gradually wound down to a more residualist one through changes to indexation and eligibility. From ~100% coverage in the 1970s to below 50% coverage in the 2020s 😬

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment