…by the National Kidney Foundation that promoted the off-label use of the drug for that purpose. The side effects were overlooked. The result? An excess of heart attacks and strokes…

by Peter Dorman (re-posted with author’s permission from Econospeak) Regression Analysis and the Tyranny of Average Effects What follows is a summary of a mini-lecture I gave to my statistics…

…effects of all people who immigrated in those years or who previously immigrated and were already residing in the United States. In addition, only the surge’s effects on federal revenues,…

…of Bowie’s oeuvre had provided a level of patronage that’s inconceivable for a musician of Bowie’s bent today…he spent the Nineties as a free agent, jumping from label to label,…

…high cost of American health care. I begin by explaining the origin and meaning of the “single payer” label. I will then describe the two defects in S 1129 in…

…do this to focus on the incentive effects of income taxation. The first two posts are here and here. In standard models, these effects are undesirable and amount to a…

…extremely similar to the emergence of SARS-CoV-1 in 2002.” “SARS and COVID-19 are both examples of zoonotic spillover events, which are becoming more common across the world as human-animal interactions…

…opponents of mechanization or advocates of short-time working, a reasoning they label as a misconception and which we know today under the label ‘lump of labor’ fallacy ‘. But the…

…than stock effects.But it’s unclear what their long-term effects might be. A steady flow reduction, on the other hand, will eventually have cumulative effects on the total stock — again…

…1. On revenues and spending, presidential effects appear to overwhelm congressional effects. This is not surprising when you consider the presidential drives behind Reagan and Bush II’s tax cuts and…