Frances Woolley points to Barbara Spencer's Address to the Canadian Women Economist's Network lunch at the 2002 Canadian Economic A...

It irritates me when economists reach quickly for the irrationality stick when they see a behaviour that they wouldn't themselves choose...

Is there a growing Jedi gap? Or is the Canadian National Household Survey letting us down? The CBC reports : Once numbering in the vici...

Frances Woolley says we should ignore the aggregate indices of economic freedom and look instead to whether people experience freedom. She ...

Frances Woolley very nicely points out the problem with hand-wavy references to 'culture' as explanation: by explaining everything,...

It's easy to forget just how excellent the NZ tax system is relative to those in other countries. But we are the envy of the world. Two ...

Frances Woolley reports on problems in her students' understanding of Pigovean taxes. After a set-piece question asking students to cal...

Frances Woolley argues the case for hidden taxes : Visible taxes can lead to bad policy choices when a tax's visible incidence is diff...

Frances Woolley's onto the problem : But any exogeneous phenomenon that is closely related to an economic outcome of interest is usual...