Tag: education
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Why Should we Learn Economics from an Early Age?
We are spending part of the summer at a campsite in north Spain with our six-year-old son and four-year-old daughter. Like many campsites, it is a relatively safe environment where children have a little more independence than they normally would. They have made friends, they go to the campsite shop by themselves to buy small…
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The Motherhood Penalty: Why childcare costs are really a labour market problem.
“I’m coming back part-time after maternity leave.” It is a sentence I started hearing repeatedly after moving to the UK. This surprised me because it was not something I had heard nearly as often before. Of course, there are many reasons why somebody may decide to reduce their hours after having children. Family preferences, cultural…
