Must-Reads: August 15, 2016
- : Recessions and the Cost of Job Loss
- (2015): Income Inequality in the United States in Cross-National Perspective: Redistribution Revisited
- David Kamin: Taxing Capital: Paths to a Fairer and Broader U.S. Tax System
- Simon Wren-Lewis: A Divided Nation
- Matthew Kahn: ”Old School” Econ 101 for the New Generation of Economists: USC’s fall term starts on August 22nd. I give my first “Econ 101” lecture to 150 students in 8 days…
Should Reads:
- Julia Belluz and Alvin Chang: What research on English dukes can teach us about why the rich live longer: Low-income individuals lived the longest (and had more healthy behaviors) in cities like New York and San Francisco with populations that are, on average, well educated, and high-income…. “The question is why health behaviors themselves vary so much among the low-income population–why poor Americans smoke more, eat more poorly, and exercise less in certain pockets of America…”
- Angus Deaton (2011): What Does the Empirical Evidence Tell Us About the Injustice of Health Inequalities?
- It’s Fidel Castro’s 90th Birthday!
- Must-Read: Steven J. Davis and Till M. von Wachter: Recessions and the Cost of Job Loss
- What Do We Think of a $15/Hr Minimum Wage in California?: A Back-of-the-Envelope Finger-Exercise Calculation
- So Why Isn’t Riding BART Free?: A Back-of-the-Envelope Finger-Exercise Calculation
- Nimbyism in America: A Back-of-the-Envelope Finger-Exercise Calculation