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The refugee's dilemma
Season 4 Episode 1
A new study uses detailed data on the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany to investigate why individuals become refugees. Mathias Thoenig tells Tim P…
5 years, 3 months ago
How authoritarians stay in power
Season 3 Episode 59
Among other things, it has not been a great year for global democracy. So in the final VoxTalk of 2020, Konstantin Sonin tells Tim Phillips how autho…
5 years, 4 months ago
Covid baby boom or bust?
Season 3 Episode 58
Will the pandemic create more or fewer babies? Joshua Wilde tells Tim Phillips how Google search data can provide the answer.
5 years, 4 months ago
The Spanish Empire's shipwreck problem
Season 3 Episode 57
When the galleon San José sank in a typhoon in 1694, it was carrying a cargo worth 2% of the GDP of the entire Spanish empire. Fernando Arteaga, Desi…
5 years, 4 months ago
Africa's roads make the rich richer
Season 3 Episode 57
Africa's roads were originally built so that colonial powers could extract its natural wealth. What has happened since then? Steven Poelhekke of the …
5 years, 4 months ago
The secret war in Laos
Season 3 Episode 56
Laotians are still suffering collateral damage from a covert war that the US waged in the country half a century ago. Felipe Valencia Caicedo tells T…
5 years, 5 months ago
A history of public debt
Season 3 Episode 55
When we compare ratios of debt to GDP, do we look closely enough at the political and financial context in which the debts were calculated? Eric Monn…
5 years, 5 months ago
Europe should throw out its fiscal rulebook
Season 3 Episode 54
The EU's increasingly complex system of fiscal rules should be replaced by a system of fiscal standards instead, Olivier Blanchard tells Tim Phillips…
5 years, 5 months ago
Gun control in Brazil
Season 3 Episode 53
In 2003 Brazil enacted strict gun control legislation. Rodrigo Schneider tells Tim Phillips about the effects on crime and homicide, and whether we c…
5 years, 5 months ago
The price of a vote
Season 3 Episode 52
How well does campaign finance work, and which political parties benefit most? Julia Cagé tells Tim Phillips how the price of a vote has varied in re…
5 years, 5 months ago