Day: February 25, 2011

Entrepreneurship lock

No doubt many readers have heard of “job lock,” the incentive to stay in a current job for the health insurance benefits, even if another

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Ethics versus efficiency

If there exists a society that doesn’t struggle with the ethics (or equality) versus efficiency tradeoff, I’ve never heard of it. Moreover, the U.S. is

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Reading list

A reader requested that I include the name of the journal for each item in my reading lists. I will try to do that starting

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Go ahead, make my day

Never mind what it is about, one of Paul Krugman’s recent posts includes this paragraph on instrumental variables (IV): Instrumental variables is a statistical technique

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Leadership matters

I’ve been asked several times and in several ways how and why health reform will play out differently across the states. In part, this has already been

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