Economics Malaysia

So, I’ve finally sat down to read through Pakatan Harapan’s alternative budget for 2018. There are some good ideas here, and a fair share of...

…we need to handle this little problem: Question: Why isn’t secondary education universal yet? What’s happening with the missi...

The Economist has an essay on one of the biggest social and demographic changes in history (excerpt): Badly educated men in rich coun...

From The Economist magazine (excerpt): Minding the nurture gap Social mobility depends on what happens in the first years of...

A commentator sent me this link (excerpt): How our Winner Take-All Market Deepen Income Inequality while Decaying Our Education Syste...

There’s an emerging global consensus and expanding research literature that very early education matters, and is effective in determining li...

I think this will sound troublingly familiar to most Malaysian academics, and not just within the economics community (excerpt; emphasis add...

Students at Manchester University want more than dogma (excerpt): Economics students aim to tear up free-market syllabus Und...

As a follow up to my previous post, anybody interested in income inequality, social mobility and equality of opportunity needs to read this ...

From my point of view, one of the biggest problems with the whole ideological debate about equal outcomes (“affirmative action”) versus equa...

A new NBER working paper explores this and many other questions (abstract; emphasis added): Smart and Illicit: Who Becomes an Entrepr...

A new NBER working paper explores this and many other questions (abstract; emphasis added): Smart and Illicit: Who Becomes an Entrepr...

Universities are like soooo last century: IMF Launches Online Economics Learning for Global Classroom In the virtual classroom ...

In the last round of NBER papers, Heckman and Raut find more evidence that pre-school education has a significant pay-off and worth putting ...

It’s a fairly long paper, but it reviews the current state of knowledge about the payoff to college education (abstract): Making Coll...

From the East Asia Forum, Bruce Chapman on the future of student loans (excerpt): Funding tertiary education in Southeast Asia and be...

We’ve started on the way to providing universal preschool education, but it’s still going to be a long road. At present, the Malaysian strat...

From last month’s round of NBER research (abstract, emphasis added): The Production of Human Capital: Endowments, Investments and Fer...

This is a blow to nerds everywhere (abstract): Popularity Gabriella Conti, Andrea Galeotti, Gerrit Mueller, Stephen Pudney ...

Now here’s something that ought to be used as input into the National Education Blueprint (abstract): Teacher Quality Policy When Sup...