http://crookedtimber.org/2006/11/03/credit-slips-blog/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Sun, 27 May 2012 00:43:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/11/03/credit-slips-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-177790 Kid empowerment Blog Digest - Comment on Credit Slips blog by radek Sun, 05 Nov 2006 14:17:11 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/11/03/credit-slips-blog/#comment-177790 [...] ">Comment on Credit Slips blog by radek I added this article to list of my favorite posts.Hmm, I’d also like to chime in with a big thanks for the pointer. This is a really good blog. Some of the issues, like intergenerational lending, personal ties, and gendered aspects of it pop up quite often in development economics. My impression from reading the posts above is that the approa...I think it's goodLink to original article [...] [...] “>Comment on Credit Slips blog by radek I added this article to list of my favorite posts.Hmm, I’d also like to chime in with a big thanks for the pointer. This is a really good blog. Some of the issues, like intergenerational lending, personal ties, and gendered aspects of it pop up quite often in development economics. My impression from reading the posts above is that the approa…I think it’s goodLink to original article [...]

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2006/11/03/credit-slips-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-177690 radek Sat, 04 Nov 2006 05:00:43 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/11/03/credit-slips-blog/#comment-177690 Hmm, I'd also like to chime in with a big thanks for the pointer. This is a really good blog. Some of the issues, like intergenerational lending, personal ties, and gendered aspects of it pop up quite often in development economics. My impression from reading the posts above is that the approach is quite different but a lot of the conclusions are the same. For example with regard to "seperate spheres" thing. Economists haven't believed that since Becker but even his economic imperialism has been very much tampered by what I guess one could call 'sociological aspects'. Oh yeah, while we're on the topic. If you're gonna lend cheap money to poorer countries, you oughta put it in the hands of the women. Men tend to spend most of it on beer, women tend to spend it on kids' education (I'm exageratin' but general point is valid). Interestingly, not only does educational expenditure per kid go up more when the woman gets the money, but also it goes up more for the daughters, helping to alleviate existing gender inequality. Sometimes when folks talk about "empowerment" it just sounds like fuzzy, nebulous, ill defined rhetoric but in this case it has a very concrete manifestation. Hmm, I’d also like to chime in with a big thanks for the pointer. This is a really good blog. Some of the issues, like intergenerational lending, personal ties, and gendered aspects of it pop up quite often in development economics. My impression from reading the posts above is that the approach is quite different but a lot of the conclusions are the same. For example with regard to “seperate spheres” thing. Economists haven’t believed that since Becker but even his economic imperialism has been very much tampered by what I guess one could call ‘sociological aspects’.
Oh yeah, while we’re on the topic. If you’re gonna lend cheap money to poorer countries, you oughta put it in the hands of the women. Men tend to spend most of it on beer, women tend to spend it on kids’ education (I’m exageratin’ but general point is valid). Interestingly, not only does educational expenditure per kid go up more when the woman gets the money, but also it goes up more for the daughters, helping to alleviate existing gender inequality. Sometimes when folks talk about “empowerment” it just sounds like fuzzy, nebulous, ill defined rhetoric but in this case it has a very concrete manifestation.

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2006/11/03/credit-slips-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-177684 John Quiggin Sat, 04 Nov 2006 03:43:20 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/11/03/credit-slips-blog/#comment-177684 This is a great blog. I was also unaware of it. I enjoyed Viviana's post and will be keen to get hold of <i>The Purchase of Intimacy</i> This is a great blog. I was also unaware of it. I enjoyed Viviana’s post and will be keen to get hold of The Purchase of Intimacy

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2006/11/03/credit-slips-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-177674 Claudia Fri, 03 Nov 2006 23:25:49 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/11/03/credit-slips-blog/#comment-177674 Thanks for the heads-up on Credit Slips. I hadn't seen that blog before. Thanks for the heads-up on Credit Slips. I hadn’t seen that blog before.

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