Have we reached a tipping point in Australian politics? Will the protests end with a change of government?
economics
That dismal science.
Mothers working, not the end of the world
Conducted by researchers at University College London, it surveyed 19,000 British households to determine how parental employment affects a child’s behaviour throughout the first five years of life.
The results will startle those who think that children benefit from having a stay-at-home mum. In fact, the paper indicates that maternal employment can often improve the chances of having well-adjusted kids.
Today in petty irritations
I choose my radio station in the car for its mix of mostly music and very few ads. Which is why it was most irritating, in the short space of listening time involved in the train station run, to hear today’s host…
So what else happened in Parliament yesterday?
The media’s way too excited about the ‘meow’ incident to tell us, so Grog’s Gamut gave a summary of the day’s proceedings. Barnaby Joyce put in his regular carrying on like a pork chop time in the Senate Estimates Committee. And did you notice that despite the drop in GDP, the Terms of Trade figures are looking really good?
Neoliberal welfare and gender inequality
I suppose that by now, everyone in Australia has probably come across some version of the latest iteration of the hatin’-on-teen-mums discourse, which comes up with frightening regularity. This version of course, is part of the ‘tough love’ strategy being… Read More ›
I can’t decide…
whether Alan Greenspan deserves internet immortality more for referring to a hypothetically invisible entity as “unredeemably opaque” or for the phrase which spawned this epic Crooked Timber thread. I await the inevitable memetic offspring.
David Willets – yeah kinda, but not really
Image credit here. I’m a little sceptical of how the economics of David Willets’ comments are being reported in these two pieces so I’m going to save my analysis for Willets’ actual quotes. David Willets, British politician with the Conservative… Read More ›
Quotable: Krugman latest on GOP “employment” policy
that’s the kind of answer that, in Econ 101, has you suggesting that the student get special tutoring
Seminaring
I am spending most of this week in a room like this, so the last thing I want to do when I get home is spend *more* time on the ‘puter. Which makes posting tricksie.
So, in no particular order:
A new definition of functional
This messy patchwork of care arrangements – its favours and returned favours; its sick children one week and different working hour requirements the next – are how the modern working parent operates these days.
Hoyden About Town 