…how research gets suborned. It appears that Bhattacharya and his colleagues are libertarians and therefore offended by public health requirements. OK. But that bias should be kept separate from research,…

…of economic research in the last century. Their Distributional National Accounts (DINAs) reveal the distribution of national income to different income classes, wealth classes, age groups, and genders (and potentially…

…care organization (ACO), a prominent iteration of managed care, illustrates the problem. The ACO label was invented at a 2006 meeting of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). The concept was tested…

…own healthcare decisions. … So, if that’s where they want to label me, I’m more than happy to take the label.” AB: This comment was made about J.D Vance and…

…and money) to incorporating a harvest-type game into a research design similar to the prisoner’s dilemma research conducted by Rapoport, Ostrom and their respective colleagues. cross posted with <a href=”http://econospeak.blogspot.com/”>Econospeak</a>…

Lifted from an e-mail from reader Jack (http://angrybearblog.strategydemo.com/2013/12/20391.html#comments): (attribution corrected…irony comes to mind) Compare Fujita’s conclusion from the Fed paper, here http://philadelphiafed.org/research-and-data/publications/research-rap/2013/on-the-causes-of-declines-in-the-labor-force-participation-rate.pdf#page=7, with da Costa’s description in the WSJ. da…

…his research on organized labor’s views on the Taylor method (“scientific management”) and Hoxie engaged his students in the research project. Hoxie also wrote on the concept of fixed group…

…researchers permission to publish their answers. In a series experiments, participants were given increasing amounts of control over their information. The results revealed what the researchers called a “control paradox:”…

…time to transform all the data, research, and words into action to fix a broken healthcare system. It’s Not a Women’s Problem – It’s a Systemic One For years, I…

…News and Media article. It is no secret or exaggeration to say guns (or bullet-spewing-weapons [my label]) are responsible for the loss of thousands of lives yearly. The loss has…