- AEI study: Food stamp reform can save $31 billion a year.
- Does money cause happiness; or do happy people earn more money?
- Fifty-five percent of single Americans feel pessimistic that they will ever find a long-term partner.
- Forecast: By 2100, 54 percent of the world’s babies will be born in sub-Saharan Africa.
Author: John C. Goodman
Monday Links
- Why is European life expectancy greater than in the US? It isn’t for old people. The higher death rate for the US young is because of drug overdoses, car accidents, drinking, and murder. (Noah @ #3)
- The reason for falling US fertility: non college educated women are not marrying non college educated men. (Noah @ #4)
- IRS now takes nearly two years to resolve stolen identity cases.
- Student achievement began declining around 2013, but these declines—both before and after the pandemic—were overwhelmingly driven by the bottom half of test takers.
Saturday Links
- Health care reform ideas from Joe Lonsdale.
- 73% of college educated women say they would be less likely to date someone if he was a Trump supporter.
- A simple coding change apparently boosted the number of patients judged to have a large hernia by 18% in just one year.
- China graduates more than five times as many iSTEM students as the US does. But we knock their socks off on gender studies and sociology.
- “It’s well-known that when a couple has a child, the average woman experiences a “child penalty” in labor market outcomes, while outcomes for the man are largely unchanged.”
Friday Links
- Hooper’s Impossibility Theorem.
- Although the federal tax and transfer system is progressive, state and local tax and transfer systems are close to proportional, on average.
- Health care from Amazon for $9 a month.
- Trump’s first few days.
- Half a billion dollars advertises a largely cosmetic drug.
- Robots in nursing homes.
- On average, a typical enrollee can expect to save nearly $140 per month in out-of-pocket costs by picking a Medicare Advantage plan over traditional Medicare.