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Healthcare

Elderly Health and Longevity in the US

Rising elderly life expectancy is a well-known source of fiscal pressure on Social Security and Medicare – but how have declining mortality and morbidity affected the two programs’ relative finances? Using nearly three decades of Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey data (1992-2019), we estimate that these demographic changes raised expected lifetime Social Security spending by over […] The post Elderly Health and Longevity in the US appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Related StoriesThe Sh...

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Economy

Bastiat’s telephone?

Oakland has seen a 37% decrease in car break-ins over the last year. What’s good news for car owners is less so for repair shops that specialize in window and windshield replacements. Multiple businesses have reported a sharp decline in their income as a result. Here is the article, via Air Genius Gary Leff. The post Bastiat’s telephone? appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsIn reply to skeptic. Rent-seeking, transfer payments, . by Anti-GnosticIn reply to EBUG. I might suggest makin...

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Culture

My aesthetics podcast with Benjamin Lima

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0HBFWS1avb6tYY1IoLefYb Web: https://athenaeumreview.org/podcast/aesthetics-a-conversation-with-tyler-cowen/ Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aesthetics-a-conversation-with-tyler-cowen/id1509089416?i=1000773451248 Here is basic information about art scholar Benjamin Lima, it was great fun for me to do this one. The post My aesthetics podcast with Benjamin Lima appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Related StoriesThe Free Press summer readi...

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Culture

Music markets remain deglobalized

It might seem surprising, in a world of global stars, that the 6m Danes, many of whom are fluent in English, listen mainly to homegrown music. And until fairly recently they did not. In 2019 only five songs in Denmark’s top 20 were in Danish. By last year the figure was 18. A similar trend […] The post Music markets remain deglobalized appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsMaybe Billy Corgan is on to something. About 25 years ago the . by Thanatos SavehnWhen musical elements have bec...

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Economy

Labor market effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017 represents the most significant reform of the U.S. income tax code since the Tax Reform Act of 1986. Previous analyses of the TCJA’s economic impact often rely on estimates based on data prior to the enactment of the legislation. This paper leverages plausibly exogenous variations in […] The post Labor market effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Related StoriesThe Shingles Vaccine Reduces DementiaAI-Native FirmsMo...

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Important committees in history

Robin Hanson queries: Missing book: Glorious Committees of History, on great committees that accomplished great things as committees. GPT Pro has an impressive response, here is the start: 1. The King James Bible translation companies. This is maybe the purest literary example: 47 scholars organized into six companies at Westminster, Oxford, and Cambridge, with review […] The post Important committees in history appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsI would say . by AnttiI , too, sug...

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Economy

Adrian Wooldridge on Sweden and liberalism

Sweden is continuing to reap the rewards of this mixture of fiscal rectitude and pro-market reforms. GDP is projected to grow by 1.8% to 1.9% this year; headline inflation stands at 1.5%; debt-to-GDP ratio is one of the lowest in the world, at just above 35%. There are some flies in this ointment, of course: […] The post Adrian Wooldridge on Sweden and liberalism appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Related StoriesImportant committees in historyColorado’s Funeral MistakeMontana’s SB535 and ...

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The Shingles Vaccine Reduces Dementia

In 2013 in Can the Shingles Vaccine Prevent Dementia? I wrote: A new paper provides good evidence that the shingles vaccine can prevent dementia, which strongly suggests that some forms of dementia are caused by the varicella zoster virus (VZV), the virus that on initial infection causes chickenpox. We now have three studies–from America, Australia and […] The post The Shingles Vaccine Reduces Dementia appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Related StoriesMontana’s SB535 and a Potential Biote...

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Education

How research in math will change (from my email)

From GA: I am a mathematician…and some of your recent comments on MR about the role of AI in Econ research as well as the (disappearing?) role of academic papers inspired this response. (It is partially but not exclusively about academia, so I hope it is ok that I’m sending it to your GMU address. […] The post How research in math will change (from my email) appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Related StoriesAI-Native FirmsMy Conversation with Dave BaszuckiDo teens regret their social medi...

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Society

Facts about American men and women

Much of what looks like changing marriage preferences over the twentieth century is actually demographics. Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in sex ratios across U.S. birth cohorts (1870, 1930, 1950), we jointly identify preferences, match quality dynamics, and the costs of marriage and divorce. Demographics alone explain two-thirds of cross-cohort differences. Women’s premium for older husbands […] The post Facts about American men and women appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Comm...

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A Cohort Perspective on Latin America’s Fertility Transition

Latin America’s momentous fertility transition is now in the domain of history, allowing a cohort perspective on the decline of completed fertility. Using census microdata from 17 Latin American countries, we track female birth cohorts from the 1920s to the 1970s by subnational region to document the extent to which cohort fertility decline coincided with […] The post A Cohort Perspective on Latin America’s Fertility Transition appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsThe decline in bir...

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Technology

Can Online Activity Be Regulated? Evidence from Adult Websites

The consequences of online regulations depend on the extent to which users can circumvent restrictions or substitute toward noncompliant platforms. Since 2023, 25 U.S. states have implemented age verification laws that caused prominent adult websites (including Pornhub) to restrict local access for all users. We study how these restrictions affected browsing activity using individual-level panel […] The post Can Online Activity Be Regulated? Evidence from Adult Websites appeared first on Marg...

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