Introduction With the rise of Donald Trump from the United States and Marine Le Pen from France, there seems to be an anti-immigration sentiment sweeping across western democracies. With more citizens voting for political candidates with anti-immigration stance, has native population’s tolerance for immigrants reached a historic low across the world? This essay endeavours to … Continue reading A Critical Examination of Immigration and Tolerance
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An Incentive Approach to the Higher Education Problem
Introduction Many economists (mostly microeconomists) claim that the study of incentives is at the core of the field of economics. They maintain that by studying incentives, we can explain why certain people do (or don’t do) certain things and we can design or manipulate incentives to achieve the desired behaviour of people. This is essentially … Continue reading An Incentive Approach to the Higher Education Problem
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