Shiv qualifies for childcare support in September. I was just looking at the details. There is a *discontinuous* loss of the benefit when you earn 100k... That's a marginal tax rate >100%.
This is probably the stupidest designed policy I have ever seen.
Institute for Fiscal Studies got a report?

Listening to the excellent The Rest Is Politics Rory Stewart ALASTAIR CAMPBELL on the Begum case has brought home to me just how much confusion there is about the deprivation of citizenship power. Here are 7 important facts about the power, starting with some common misconceptions :…

Bells has flu. Shiv has chicken pox. And at 5am this morning a kidney stone decided to start making its way down my ureter.

Send reinforcements.

Amrita Kulka I and are looking to hire one or two RAs with good knowledge of scraping or text analysis to help us out on a super interesting project on NIMBYISM and the UK housing market. Hours can be flexible. tinyurl.com/2r82z3rt #EconTwitter Econ RA Listings

Just the governing party of the world’s largest democracy official Twitter account posting anti-semitic conspiracy theories suggesting the opposition party are controlled by a Jewish billionaire…

I do love it when family from the motherland visit

In 2015 the Advisory Council on Misuse of drugs did a review on NO and recommended to Theresa May it did not warrant control under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. They were asked to do a new review this year. They concluded the same thing.

gov.uk/government/pub…

This isn’t a new issue. The UK’s attitude towards Indian visas was a stumbling block for an EU-India FTA back when we were a member.

The UK’s housing market isn’t particularly healthy, but stuff like this is misleading. It’s calculated off realised average deposits for first time buyers. In London avg deposit was 34%, pretty much every where else was around 24% according to Zoopla (the source for the numbers).

High density housing, on a brownfield site, right next to a london tube station, in a town centre that its own council accepts needs regeneration because its local services lack sufficient demand.

“Wages should rise with productivity but pensions should rise (weakly) faster.”

theguardian.com/politics/2023/…

Real pay continues to fall. There fixed it for you.

“Using CPI real earnings, in April to June 2023, total pay fell by 0.2% on the year and regular pay fell by 0.6% on the year.”

ons.gov.uk/employmentandl…

(If use CPIH it’s a minor increase, but that’s thoroughly less dramatic)

It’s always a coin flip on who will inform me on the outcome of a sporting event first, a news app or my dad

New short WP by me, alan manning & Barbara Petrongolo:

Do firms that pay higher wages fill vacancies more easily?
We find a 10% wage increase reduces vacancy-filling time by 25-40%.

iza.org/publications/d…
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Remember that time a Harry Potter villain took over a US university?

This is weak and disappointing. Freedom of speech as well as academic freedom in India is being eroded, and one would hope that top institutions would make it clear they stand by those key principles rather than distancing themselves from research that shakes the status quo.

The BJP won the 2019 parliamentary elections in India: but was it ALL fair and square?

This astonishing new working paper by sabyasachi das provides scientific evidence that suggests vote(r) manipulation by BJP.

And no, this is NOT about EVMs.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
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