Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Now, Don’t Guess
Austin Frakt
May 11, 2010
The smallish corner of the internet I pay attention to is abuzz with the Asker vs. Guesser question. I first saw reference to it by
The smallish corner of the internet I pay attention to is abuzz with the Asker vs. Guesser question. I first saw reference to it by
I’m an incidental economist for many reasons. One is described on the About page. Another is that while I am an economist by profession I
Since I started this some months ago, I’ve tried to stick to health policy. Sure, I have opinions on other topics, but I felt more
A May 9 NY Times editorial argues for a national law to regulate health insurance rate increases. This hodgepodge of controls over premiums needs to
If you follow my News & Links feed you’ll have noticed an anti-Facebook meme. I won’t repeat all the evil, privacy-violating things Facebook does (below
Joshua Angrist has many papers explaining and using instrumental variables (IV). In a 2001 Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) article with Alan Krueger he digs
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Austin Frakt makes an excellent point about my post from last night: [A] big reason employees want health insurance through their employer is the tax
I’ll let the cat out of the bag so I can add to what Ezra Klein has posted on Senate holds. My summer blog project
Sarah Kliff reports on the latest polling on health care reform: The Quinnipiac polls, conducted in three states across the past month, all find likely
This isn’t getting a lot of play a ton of MSM attention as of yet, but it should: The great mystery surrounding the historic health
Stiff String-Theory: Richard Feynman on Piano Tuning, by John Bryner In a letter to his piano tuner, the great theoretical physicist talks about how the