Data
On the Economics and Data of Love, Dating, and Relationships
Last Valentine’s Day, I was asked by my former college organization to deliver a talk on the “data of love, dating, and relationships” as part of their Young Economists' Lecture and Learning Series at De La Salle University.
I thought I’d share the presentation with you and put this up for posterity’s sake. Hopefully, you can piece together what I was talking about.
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On Latin Honors: How hard is it to get to the top?
NOT LIKE THE OLD DAYS - Latin honors may not be as exclusive an award as it was before. (Photo: gadgetdude/Flickr, CC BY 2.0)
I was reading this article on how Latin honors have become increasingly common among graduates in recent history, and it contained interesting comparative data on various universities in Manila.
On Tax Evasion in the Philippines: They go to crooked politicians, anyway
On Melting Coins and Negative Seignorage
We’re running out of coins!
Did you know that the Philippines suffers from a chronic coin shortage, despite coins in circulation being the highest among our ASEAN neighbors? Some of this can be attributed to coin hoarding or keeping coins in alkansyas and tucked under those frogs in commercial establishments, but some can also be attributed to coin smuggling, or the melting down of coins for their metal content.