Children of immigrants to Britain do better on standardized tests than the native-born. Truly, I need to sit down and write my Anglosphere Immigration Really Is Different1 post.
The US has more data centre2 capacity than the next 14 countries combined.
Coefficient Giving has started a $165M fund to help countries transition as international health aid amounts decrease.
Peter J Evans - In Development Magazine’s in-house illustrator - argues that the third wave of philanthropy must consider political economy.
My friend Freddy Soames is starting a UK progress & politics news roundup.
“The number of countries and territories in the low- or no-growth club has risen from 68 in 2014 to 80 in 2024.” The average low-income country actually had GDP/capita decrease from 2014 to 2024. Seems not ideal.
British productivity growth has been less bad than previously thought (though still not amazing).
Why does everyone freak out about inheritance tax in the UK3 when relatively few estates pay it? Because one in five households with members over 65 would trigger it if the member(s) died now.
A new paper finds that 1) Europe increasingly takes in migrants from female-seclusion societies, and 2) this makes migration increasingly costly because women are less likely to work.4
Asterisk Magazine is taking pitches for their “secrets” issue.
The provost of Dartmouth wrote an op-ed about how to fight AI cheating. It was entirely written with AI.
>50% of German long-distance trains are delayed.
Scientists have discovered a new kind of cat. I approve of this science.
Subtitle: if you make one more comment about Molenbeek when discussing immigration to the UK, I will scream.
Spelling intentional because this is from a Centre for British Progress post.
For the Americans: inheritance tax kicks in at £325,000 for a single person (around $440,000), up to £1m for a couple leaving behind a primary residence. For the Brits: US estate tax kicks in at $15 million (around £11 million). These are… very different policies.
This, like the MAC model, counts the cost of educating children as a fiscal cost (accrued to the parents). As I’ve written before, I don’t like this modeling choice either. Children are supposed to be costly! That’s the part of the life cycle they are in! The state recoups that cost later, when the children are adults (and taxpayers).
Thank you for including us!
The new Bolivian cat is part of pre publicity for openpea.org's forthcoming piece on the politics of fuel subsidies in Bolivia by the amazing Diego Penaranda Molina https://www.linkedin.com/in/diego-penaranda-molina/