Overlapping Generations News Today

Open access notables We need a solid scientific basis for nature-based climate solutions in the United States, Novick et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (perspective):

1. Why did Wyoming kill school choice? (hint: median voter theorem?) 2. Romer, Glaeser, Bertaud, and other talks on charter cities. 3. Which kinds of…

The supply-side framework outlined in this paper does not include all the effects of taxation that economists would like to examine. Depending on one's perspective, the glass could be considered half-full as well as half-empty. But if the only "dynamic" thing the Joint Committee on Taxation did was to incorporate the detrimental effects of federal deficits on capital formation, this would be more than worth the effort.

 E-Mail Temperature rise due to climate change has negatively affected labour productivity in the past decades and will keep damaging it, potentially at a higher extent than what has been estimated in the literature up to now. In South Africa, a future scenario with severe climate change will feature a reduction of per capita GDP of up to 20% by the end of the century, compared to an idealized future without the impacts of a changing climate. This is what emerges from the study "Climate change...