Eric Crampton

@EricCrampton

Chief Economist at the NZ Initiative. Adjunct Senior Fellow with the Department of Economics at . Still stronger than Derp

Wellington, New Zealand
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Joined June 2009
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    26 Apr 2017

    Our new family portrait by . Happy anniversary Susan!

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    5 hours ago

    Available at 12:01AM

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    5 hours ago

    From his home in a server instance, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming

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    11 hours ago

    New , summarizing my paper with and : Did Economist James M. Buchanan Support "Massive Resistance" to School Desegregation?

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  5. 7 hours ago

    When y'all have finally had enough...

    DEPRAVED Sheriff's dept. planned shooter drill, but didn't tell school it was fake. Kids and teachers thought they were going to DIE. "Captain Francis said that the unannounced Code Red drill was necessary." Yeah? Kids vomited, passed out in fear.
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    13 hours ago

    Analysis by and others of large sample school based survey from Washington state finds decline in cannabis use for 8th and 10th graders following legalization.

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    23 hours ago

    This one is interesting. Some voices are blaming the PR loss on "big money-funded scare campaign". But FPTP voters actually like the system. They like simplicity and actually like majority governments. The "fear" (of fringe parties) response only ranked 5th.

    5) And the base was firmly of the conviction that a change would lead to more minority governments that they DID NOT want:
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  8. 20 hours ago

    That's kinda my column this week...

    New marketing slogan for New Zealand "The only stable country left"
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    23 hours ago

    RNZ describe this public health paper on Christmas cards and alcohol as slightly tongue-in-cheek. I'm not convinced. Sally Casswell sounds dead serious in this interview!

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  10. Dec 20

    It's important that a good candidate's selected for this one. Your mission, if you choose to accept it....

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    Dec 20

    Yet another study of the Mariel Boatlift is making the rounds. I'll discuss it after a recap of the recent history of this debate. *Deep dive alert* -->

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  12. Dec 20

    It's a Rorshack test. Some see Elvis with a microphone, others see a guy peeing on the sidewalk when caught out by the red light.

    Elvis Presley traffic light flashes in Friedberg
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    Dec 20

    The spooks aren't all bad.

    The foreign intelligence service and the asylum seeker. An intriguing case study from NZ GCSB annual Cyber Threat Report released today. H/t
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  14. Dec 20

    Unite Union director argues I'm ideologically biased about minimum wages, and that proof of my bias is that I quote figures on the employment effects of minimum wage hikes. Because MBIE is part of the conspiracy too.

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    Dec 18

    Mason is a top-tier university once more. The R1 designation from the Carnegie Classification puts the university in a group of institutions known for performing at the highest research level. Find out how Mason is set up to lead >>

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    Dec 20

    Economists including Paul Collier assert that migrants transmit to other countries the causes of poverty in their home countries. Lant Pritchett and I assess those claims in a paper just accepted for publication in the Journal of Development Economics:

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    Dec 19
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    Heh. Before the trade competition clause. I remember one RMA association member making the quip at a conference how lucky NZ was to have retailers so passionate about protecting the integrity of the RMA all the way to court. 😉😂

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    Dec 19

    IKEA says it plans "to explore expansion opportunities in New Zealand." Now begins a running battle as the other established big box retailers use the RMA to try to block IKEA from building anywhere near them any time soon. Sadly, RMA used by commercial NIMBYs too.

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  19. Dec 19

    Here is what the RMA has meant for getting one supermarket built.

    Replying to @PalairetNathan @EricCrampton @BenRoss_AKL
    For some reason I thought there were pictures, but here it is. Not just a poster!
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  20. Dec 19

    If only it came with the greatest controller of all time, the Epyx 500 XJ.

    This is better than Stranger Things.
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  21. Dec 19

    If *somebody* hadn't murdered , I would absolutely love to see a contract reading "Pays $1 if construction begins on an IKEA in New Zealand in 2019". And another, "Pays $1 if an IKEA opens in New Zealand before 2022."

    IKEA have been coming to NZ for so long. It’s like they’ve got me assembling the store. 😭😂
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