Aria Babu @Aria_Babu Twitter profile

Last Seen Profiles

@McDonalds_Ar

@yuno_mgr

@Plumbertoday

@jlosreign

@PDCOMM_trial

@MOLiljegren

@SukaIbuIbuTua2

@felisha39922

@defexe

@brann_amay

@sotwecom

@beatnheart

@adsitges

@Hayeknews_

@AnaSilverman3

@SPS_SPEDandPPS

@Bratislava

@cripto_chef

@beafandraw

@BinorRaja

@GatesyNyla69222

@m_sung8

@bokeplokalmalam

@BottariAugusto

@JordynMeunier

@hironaka007

@jandakembangstw

@stw_pdg

@martina_vach

@nyanx0209

@nickstreet

@yovana0701

@top_tsonga

@A_Bocharov_A

@YungaTechUg

@Cryoscopic_E

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

5 years

Labour didn't deserve the 200 seats they got. They spent the election lying about NHS privatisation, lying about their spending/taxes, and sanctimoniously pretending to be progressive force with a less redistributive manifesto than the LDs while being led by an antisemite.

73

351

2K

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

2 months

1,000, randomly selected, UK trained medical students aren't allowed to become doctors. For literally no good reason

Lara Brown

@lara_e_brown

2 months

In 2022, 12,148 doctors with a foreign nationality joined the NHS. This year, 1,00 UK trained doctors haven’t been given placements for junior doctor training. The current immigration rules prevent the NHS prioritising doctors from our universities over those from abroad.

23

157

705

24

226

2K

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

2 years

Here's a list of nobel prize winners who experimented on themselves, something which is now highly taboo in the medical research community.

42

149

1K

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

1 year

When I was at school, hardly anyone got extra time in exams. Now almost 40% of children get some kind of special arrangement. There's a clear incentive here to game the system

50

63

958

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

4 years

So I built a new political compass quiz and almost 40 000 people have taken it. See where you land (sorry about the whole alien thing)

96

78

510

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

1 year

This is the worst kind of journalism. They've taken something completely subjective and plotted it on a graph to make it seem authoritative. The underlying reason is to subtly push a certain kind of politics by making it seem more popular than it actually is.

John Burn-Murdoch

@jburnmurdoch

1 year

By one measure, the policies Truss and Kwarteng announced briefly made the Tories the most economically right-wing major party in the world 🥳

75

78

285

30

54

519

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

3 years

Not to make a building out of a bee brick, but this is the reason everything is bad. It seems costless to add a fun biodiverse brick, but people who build houses are inundated with lots of requirements like this which added together make building homes more difficult.

Robert Nemeth

@robert_nemeth

3 years

A bee brick - now compulsory in Brighton & Hove on new buildings after I raised issue at Council. Big victory.

837

4K

42K

22

35

460

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

4 years

Me, about to start cooking

3

27

295

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

9 months

ffs, just build something

Aitor Hernández-Morales

@aitorehm

9 months

Spectacular illustration by @andreu_zaragoza for 'The Barcelonian' perfectly summing up the devastating impact of uncontrolled tourist flats in European cities.

243

2K

8K

4

7

289

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

11 months

Three hours a day, of her precious youth, spent commuting!! Just because we decided to make house building illegal!

Libs of TikTok

@libsoftiktok

11 months

Recent college grad has breakdown over working a job. We’re doomed.

10K

4K

33K

8

17

279

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

3 years

Just another day working at DeepMind but I'm low on stationary - I wonder what happens if I ask the super powerful computer to get me as many paperclips as possible so that I never run out?

6

11

250

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

5 years

Lib Dems love Elizabeth Warren because she talked about having "evidence-based policies" while actually just doing populism for the university-educated classes.

3

31

235

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

3 months

I'm in the Times today, talking about how we should be worried about falling birth rates

The Times & The Sunday Times

News and opinion from The Times & The Sunday Times

www.thetimes.com

12

23

204

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

3 years

I'm mentioned in The Atlantic today 😊

6

8

192

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

1 year

Candidates at independent (private) schools are way more likely to get extra time than at state or grammar schools too

6

17

173

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

2 years

If they won't publish my op-eds I'll talk to the readers directly!

5

3

167

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

2 years

The UK has some of the most expensive childcare and among the highest rates of subsidy. Full time childcare costs 30% of the median person's earnings, which after tax, student loans and NI contributions leaves mothers with a very high effective tax rate for entering work.

7

40

161

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

1 year

Labour aren't serious about growth if they're blocking 140k new houses on spurious environmental grounds. If they're willing to make a short-term political ploy like this - about something no one will remember on election day - then they've shown us how they're going to govern.

Angela Rayner

@AngelaRayner

1 year

There are far better ways to build the new homes we desperately need than green lighting water pollution. I’ve written with @SteveReedMP on why Labour will oppose these latest reckless plans from the Tory Party that brought you the sewage scandal. 🧵1/9

323

769

4K

4

16

157

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

5 years

So much of XR treats the environment like a side-quest in ending capitalism

Seamie

@DrSeamie

5 years

@sarahwollaston @XRebellionUK Its not the transport. Its the economic growth. And London's caged hamster commuter traffic is an ready symbol of that. Economic growth causes a huge ADDITIONAL energy burden largely coming from #fossilfuels . It has to end if we want our kids to survive, and indeed ourselves.

8

0

10

13

149

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

4 years

Obviously my friends aren't a representative sample - on the other hand I have just found out that all men sit around recreationally browsing Google Maps

23

7

133

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

1 year

Houseshares and small living rooms mean you can't host your friends for dinner. High rents mean you can't afford to eat out.

1

18

131

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

3 years

This is also why we took longer to vaccinate people in January 2021. Trip hazard check, safeguarding training, equality and diversity impact assessment, site visit checks by three different bodies &tc. People were dying but boxes must be ticked

7

19

125

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

8 months

It's me! Mentioned by Scott Alexander!!

4

1

125

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

9 months

My aunt is a normal centre-left voter who has worked in and around housing stuff for most of her life. She thinks the priority should be to build more social houses and doesn't care much about private housing. When I say my priority is private market housing, because I'm not

10

3

124

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

3 years

We talk a lot about the "housing crisis" and about how high rents and house prices are making us poorer. The problem's much worse. Even if you don't have a mortgage, even if you don't live in the UK, Britain's housing crisis is probably making you poorer. (Thread)

2

36

120

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

2 months

This is especially cruel, because without your FY1 and FY2 years, you won't be considered a full doctor. So you can't just pack up and move elsewhere (without having to do any ore education)

1

2

116

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

2 months

Our treatment of junior doctors is so anti-natalist. We keep them in a state of prolonged adolescence until they're about 30, forcing them to move constantly, work inconsistent hours, and punishing time taken out much more aggressively than other professions.

Owen

@owenmm2

2 months

After an undergrad in Durham & postgrad medical degree in which she gained several academic awards, my wife has been RANDOMLY ranked in the bottom 6% of UK med students. Off we go to another country away from our flat and my London-based job. Cheers @UKFPO @wesstreeting @TheBMA

125

282

2K

3

112

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

10 months

I'm sorry YIMBYs, but the Stratford Orb is too ugly to be allowed. Any good planning/zoning system would ban people from building eyesores that can cause permanent daylight for nearby residents. Build this concert venue instead

8

10

100

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

5 years

0

9

100

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

2 months

When people complain about the salaries in politics, I mostly think they're just playing a silly signalling game. They want you to know that they earn lots of money. Actually 90k is quite a high salary and there are plenty of great people who earn less than that.

14

6

101

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

5 years

I have eaten the GMOs that were in the farmed goods and which you were probably planning to ban Forgive me they were delicious so efficient and so nutritious

1

11

97

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

2 months

Remember, we are still short on doctors! We should be able to find places for these people in the system.

3

92

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

7 months

I think it's evil to post a job application if you already have a candidate in mind. Literally all you're doing in wasting people's time. Rules that make this necessary for "fairness" are doubly evil.

5

91

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

2 years

It seems that throughout the 60s and 70s, countries tightened their ethical standards for medical experiments, mostly after some particularly egregious things were done to people. Fully consented to self experimentation seems to have been outlawed during this process.

2

79

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

3 years

Build more houses to steal tech talent from The Bay Area 🏘️🏗️

GB News

@GBNEWS

3 years

‘We could steal the best and the brightest from California and bring them to the UK’ Aria Babu from The Entrepreneurs Network speaks exclusively to GB News about the next tech superpower company possibly coming from Britain. Watch GB News: Freeview 236, Sky 515, Virgin 626

24

10

53

7

79

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

2 years

I'm not kidding! These police officers were accused of running an illegal unregulated childminding business because they took care of each other's daughters when the other had a night shift.

Officers who baby-sat for each other may face prosecution

Government orders review of case of two police officers who were told they had to stop looking after each others' children or face prosecution

www.theguardian.com

3

13

78

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

1 year

I'm in last week's Telegraph magazine. Despite the sensationalist title, most reasonable people agree that an aging population presents a series of challenges and it is a sad indictment of our culture and economy that people are not able to have all the children that they want.

10

8

77

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

9 months

Really my question is how can a person have so little interest in their own class-based interest but also not spend at least 10% of their income on fighting Malaria

4

1

75

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

2 years

Corporate Manslaughter laws now make universities liable if a researcher dies, they have to explain what they did to protect them. This is why institutions are particularly harsh on the practice

0

1

71

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

27 days

Only the most fringe and backwards Brits view me as foreigner

Jonathan

@Stevvardship

27 days

We aren't going to introduce a system by which these people are not allowed to settle. It is especially hilarious that this is being proposed by a foreigner.

2

1

26

11

1

74

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

1 year

Love bombing is the silliest part of therapy speak to have mainstreamed recently It probably isn't true that most abusers are psychopaths, sophisticated in manipulation. They're probably erratic people, who are sometimes very in love and sometimes very angry and hate-filled.

8

1

74

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

1 year

If you admit there are substantial differences between groups (e.g men and women) this will be used to argue for circumscribed roles in society for these groups. I don't like lying but I also don't like feeding the notion that women are best suited to domestic labour 🤷‍♀️

28

2

69

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

1 year

I want to start a commune where instead of living off the land my friends and I move to a monastery or manor house, continue doing the same jobs, share a big co-working space, and pay people to cook and clean for us.

6

2

70

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

1 year

The British public are, as far as I can tell, against everything all the time. Basically all of this content is available all over the internet every day and we're doing okay.

Giles Wilkes

@Gilesyb

1 year

Fascinating polling from Public First on public attitudes towards AI. Am totally fascinated by the people answering Yes to some of these.

19

14

30

3

10

71

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

3 months

Move to a big city, go to parties, and use the apps.

Scott Greer 6’2” IQ 187

@ScottMGreer

3 months

Every married person on here: "Delete the apps. Move to the middle of nowhere. Find a nice girl at the local church where the average age is 65. No I did none of these things and no one else I know did either. But I guarantee you it works!"

221

538

8K

5

2

68

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

4 years

Isn’t it great to see people being rewarded for creating products which helped us during lockdown ☺️☺️

2

8

64

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

2 years

I think politicians should give powerpoint presentations instead of speeches. I think the public conversation would be greatly improved if we had graphs

6

5

61

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

1 year

I feel hostile towards very conservative pronatalists. One of the easiest ways to boost birthrates would be to wind back women's rights. This is the opposite of a solution - I emphatically do not want to subjugate women so that we can churn out more labouring human chattel.

7

1

61

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

2 years

They'll let anyone in here now

2

0

60

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

1 year

Okay it looks like there actually is double counting here -- turns out we don't really know the total number of arrangements. My best-guess is it's more like 30%.

4

2

58

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

5 years

"I have an eating disorder" - stresses out ur family - try to make you eat - banned on Instagram "I'm trying intermittent fasting" - cool and health conscious - men admit to doing it so it's high status - influencer recommended

1

9

59

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

1 year

Remember, don't give your money to Shelter! They spend your donations on lobbying against new housing

Charlie Trew

@charlie_trew2

1 year

I'm sorry but this isn't good enough. Planning reform to get billion pound companies to build luxury developments WILL NOT help low income families out of homelessness. These are EXACTLY the same policies that Cons have tried since 2010. The ONLY answer is to build social homes.

23

46

121

9

11

59

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

1 year

This is so ugly and misery-inducing.

Samuel Hughes

@SCP_Hughes

1 year

Regulations were recently introduced requiring a minimum window sill or guard height of 1.1 metres. My colleague @RobertKwolek at @createstreets just spotted this new build, apparently an early example of the small squat windows this will generate. Behold the norm of the future.

269

310

2K

4

57

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

4 years

Uber aren't a charity. If you stop them from making money they'll stop working

Matt Haney

@MattHaneySF

4 years

This is DESPICABLE, outrageous behavior from @UberEats . They are now saying that they can no longer deliver to Treasure Island residents bc of new regulations capping commissions. So they are RETALIATING against SF by punishing one of our most low income, isolated communities

483

163

520

2

7

57

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

4 years

Layla Moran on jobs in her constituency

14

12

56

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

5 years

If you're a Kantian, don't talk to me or my taxidermied son ever again

2

1

54

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

3 years

I was too busy having fun at the #autumnball to take good pictures there, but needless to say, I was a vision

3

1

53

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

5 years

I've got some news about Harry Potter that's gonna blow this man's mind

1

0

52

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

4 years

0

54

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

5 years

Me: I can't believe the stupid British public voted leave and then made Boris PM Someone from a different country: yeah, you're right Me: Excuse me, what the fuck? You don't understand the first thing about Brexit or Boris Johnson

1

3

54

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

5 years

Yeah, we know it is

1

0

52

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

4 years

The sequel: Layla Moran on why she won't build housing in her constituency

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

4 years

Layla Moran on jobs in her constituency

14

12

56

7

20

52

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

5 months

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand The Tortured Poets Department. The humor is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of the Swift and 1975 cannon most of the lyrics will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Taylor's femcel outlook, which is d

2

4

50

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

5 years

Isn't it appalling that a woman who is now rich but used to be poor has to pay for something??? The scenes! The horrors of neoliberalism! I weep

Marcus Barnett

@marcusbarnett_

5 years

Scenes as @zarahsultana shows her student debt in the House & asks Tory frontbenchers to "look her in the eye" & tell her its fair that "working class kids are forced to take on this crushing debt when Boris "went from the playing fields of Eton to a free education at Oxford”

585

2K

11K

0

7

49

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

2 years

A recession is already threatening our start-up ecosystem and instead of scrambling to protect it, the government is going ahead with cuts to R&D tax credits and failing to give clarity on the future of tax breaks for investors.

Britain’s best start-ups are being poached

A poor investment environment and changes to tax credits are driving British firms overseas in search for funding

www.telegraph.co.uk

1

19

49

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

1 year

I feel so bad for the current set of undergrads. Imagine spending your first year (or two years) locked away for Covid, then being unable to graduate because of the marking boycott, knowing you're going to have to pay back ~£40k of student loans

1

49

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

3 years

Hearing about this has shaped my worldview and before I was ever interested in politics I was interested in improving pregnancy. I'm really pleased to have been given the chance to write about this.

Womb for improvement - Works in Progress

Pregnancy can be arduous, painful and for some women impossible. New technology may allow more women to have children, and save the lives of more prematurely born infants. How do we get there?

worksinprogress.co

4

10

50

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

3 years

The UK is suffering from a shortage of good quality housing in "productive places" (areas where there are lots of high paying jobs).

1

10

49

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

10 months

In my last blog post, I wrote about how, counterintuitively, the more socially conservative countries have lower birth. In my latest post I dig into the data on why that might be.

Beliefs that kill birth rates

The big question in natalism is about whether birthrates fall, primarily, because of culture.

www.ariababu.co.uk

15

47

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

5 months

Badly behaved dogs are more annoying than badly behaved children

2

0

49

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

2 years

Children benefit a lot from spending time with adults who are heavily invested in them. Many of them would be better off being taken care of by informal and flexible arrangements organised in their parents' communities.

2

3

48

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

27 days

Forget asylum seekers and dependents for a moment — I can’t see what’s wrong with using immigration to staff health and social care. Even if they don’t earn very much they’re driving down the cost of supplying these services and therefore the cost to the tax payer

21

3

48

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

1 year

I hate to say it, but metric units are french high modernist nonsense favoured by dweeby intellectuals because the neatness of uniform base 10 gives it the aesthetic of rationality. Imperial units are lindy, developed by people for measuring the things that are useful to them.

10

5

48

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

2 years

Most organisations have too few admin staff for optimal efficiency. This is especially true for the NHS, which has doctors spending hours on unspecialised paperwork every day.

9

1

46

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

1 year

@donkyourenemies In some exams, timing doesn't matter, I don't think it makes sense to have strict time limits for essays. BUT there are quite a few intensely timed maths and physics tests where speed is part of what they're testing.

4

0

48

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

5 years

I'm speaking at the Hayek Society (I know I know) - if you're in Oxford you should stop by

Oxford Hayek Society

@HayekOxford

5 years

The recent election was one of the most significant in recent memory. Many classical liberals no longer felt they could identify themselves with the Liberal Democrats. This Friday, @Utilit_Aria discusses if the Liberal Democrats are still pro-market.

2

1

14

5

3

46

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

2 years

It's weird that we've stopped this from happening. It takes a village to raise a child.

2

1

46

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

1 year

Status, unlike money or food, doesn't ever seem to satisfy you. I find this story from the Beatles quite sad.

3

2

45

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

5 months

The “children are psychologically damaged by being separated from their mother” crowd and the “no noisy kids in public” crowd are in the process of synthesising a new, deeply anti-mother, middle class culture

2

3

45

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

5 years

It's not your landlord who's screwing you, it's the town and country planning act.

1

6

43

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

2 years

This is the most underrated geopolitical fact. India will soon matter more than China.

5

3

44

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

5 years

Wonder what the left are going to blame inequality on when banning private schools doesn't do anything

3

5

42

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

11 months

I was at a talk where the speaker complained about charging for water — he said it flowed freely. Maybe I’m nitpicking, but clean drinkable water doesn’t flow abundantly. Labour and resources make that and someone has to pay.

4

6

44

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

4 years

If you can be baptised you can get married and if you can get married you can consummate. I refuse to engage with actual catholics on this.

2

6

43

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

1 year

I hope NICE lowers its 35 BMI minimum for semaglutide. South asians experience the negative health effects of obesity at much lower weights and I'd hate for my family to miss out on such a life changing drug for silly bureaucratic reasons.

Tom Harwood

@tomhfh

1 year

Semaglutide is a real game changer, it could improve so many lives & save the NHS millions NICE says the drug will be available to NHS England patients once manufacturer Novo Nordisk launches it here But the firm says “we don’t have a launch date” so far

18

11

94

3

41

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

3 years

This one is to all the haters and losers

1

0

40

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

1 year

Fuck it -- abolish the House of Lords!

Richard Benwell

@RSBenwell

1 year

Thank you to everyone who defended #NutrientNeutrality protection for nature - the Government's proposals have been rejected. Peers from all parties have concluded that we can build houses *without* sacrificing rivers or weakening environmental law. Now on to restoring nature.

18

196

817

5

3

40

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

3 years

i regret to inform you that the bee bricks are cancelled

Blair King

@BlairKing_ca

3 years

@robert_nemeth Can you clarify how you clean/replace these bricks? Bee bricks are excellent for 1-2 seasons but then they become death traps as mites infest them. Bee houses and bee bricks need to be cleaned/replaced every 2-3 years and I'm wondering if this is part of your project?

5

7

86

3

1

38

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

2 years

The rise of veganism has made vegetarian options worse

11

4

40

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

4 years

Feeling bad about my antics over the past couple of days on twitter dot com. I have decided to atone, like this post for one sincere compliment

4

0

41

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

2 months

Listen to me chatting about pronatalism and British economic malaise with Razib Kahn

3

39

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

2 years

Was talking to a doctor friend who said that when they've delivered a baby and the new parents look at it, they're often hormone-ridden and surprised at how ugly the child is. She has decided the best thing to say is "And can you believe they get even cuter"

1

0

39

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

11 months

The thing about Sunak is that people thought they were getting a technocrat. That's because he's skinny, Indian and teetotal. Sunak was actually a pro-Brexit, anti-lockdown populist.

3

4

39

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

9 months

I've been wearing the same jeans and Christmas jumper combination for the past month

Jenni

@hashjenni

9 months

Male privilege is wearing the same outfit multiple times to events while girls cant wear the same dress twice no matter how cute it is

444

21

228

2

0

40

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

1 year

@donkyourenemies I think being able to do maths at speed is part of the skill

9

1

40

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

2 years

@__femb0t There's also an anonymous survey of biomedical researchers - finding that about half of them have done some form of self experimentation - all of them have kept it a secret. As far as we can tell, no one has died from self experimentation.

Review of Scientific Self-Experimentation: Ethics History, Regulation, Scenarios, and Views Among...

We examine self-experimentation ethics history and practice, related law, use scenarios in universities and industry, and attitudes. We show through analysis of the historical development of medical...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

1

4

37

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

1 year

Spotted in Hampstead

3

1

38

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

2 years

If the supply of a good is restricted by the government, clever tax and subsidy policy will only rearrange who gets to have it. I want abundant housing/childcare/healthcare/everything and will not settle for artful rationing.

2

6

39

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

2 years

We have very strict ratios regarding how many children can be cared for by an adult. Countries like Sweden, Denmark and Spain have no such prescriptive ratios at all. Childcare would be half as expensive if we had Norwegian ratios.

Regulation and the Cost of Child Care

Given the high costs and the low benefits of many restrictive child care regulations, such as child–staff ratio requirements, policymakers should rethink certain regulations of the child care...

www.mercatus.org

2

8

38

Aria Babu

@Aria_Babu

4 years

What opinions of yours have changed over the last month? I now genuinely believe that green spaces in cities are important public amenities

12

0

35