- 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.
Category: Cost of Healthcare
What is Public Health and Why is the Definition Important
There are probably as many opinions on what constitutes public health as there are people. Is junk food and sugary beverages a public health concern? What about obesity? The former are amenable to individual action, but some public health concerns require collective action. One example is Cholera, a communicable waterborne disease that causes serious diarrhea, often leading to death.
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.