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Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
ideology, ignorance, and inertia—the
Abhijit V. Banerjee • Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
Economics
Robert Skidelsky • The economics of love: Following the heart, not the head
This belief in the S-shape means that unless parents are unwilling to treat their children differently from one another, it makes sense for them to put all their educational eggs in the basket of the child they perceive to be the most promising, making sure that she gets enough education, rather than spreading the investment evenly across all their
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# Behavioral Economics
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Tracking children is a way to do that.
Abhijit V. Banerjee • Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
How then can more “good jobs” be created? Clearly, it would help if it were easier to migrate to cities, so policies on urban land use and low-income housing are obviously vital. Less obviously, effective social safety nets, consisting of both public assistance and market insurance, can make migration easier by reducing dependence on social
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their lives could be significantly improved by making it as easy as possible to do the right thing—based on everything else we know—using the power of default options and small nudges: