- Tyler Cowen on an early study by Claudia Goldin explaining inequality: returns to education is the culprit.
- Case and Deaton: Life expectancy at age 25 for those with four-year college degrees rose to 59 years on the eve of the pandemic, up from 54 years in 1992. But for those without college degrees, life expectancy reached its peak around 2010 and has been falling ever since. (NYT)
- Matt Yglesias rejects the Case/Deaton argument for “deaths of despair.”
- 20 percent of adolescents had symptoms of major depressive disorder during the pandemic, but less than half got treatment.
- 45% of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee have conflicts of interest. That may be why the government published the food pyramid that caused so many people to get fat.
Author: John C. Goodman
The World is Getting Safer
A graph you don’t tend to see in the mainstream media. Thanks to the Committee to Unleash Prosperity for the pointer.
Tuesday Links
- Jeff Goldbery explains our disappointing life expectancy statistics: We lead the rest of the developed word in death by guns, suicides, drug overdoses, and in obesity.
- Unpaid caregiving lowers employment and wages – for men caregivers more than women.
- For the lay reader: why Claudia Goldin won the Nobel Prize in economics.
- How liberals live: New York city has more income inequality than any other large city in the country. (NYT)
Monday Links
- Penn Wharton warning: the US is headed toward default.
- Aaron Carroll: misinformation about health care has a very long history.
- Will shaming hospitals make them lower their charges?
- How progressives thought about race – 100 years ago.
- The worst police abuses do not involve accidental shootings.
- More on why marriage matters.