Unbiased Analysis of Today's Healthcare Issues
I have recently been selected to attend the European Science Days in Steyr, Austria. This year, the subject matter to be discussed at this prestigious summer school is Health Economics. I am greatly looking forward to visiting some of my European colleagues in mid-July.
As a resident of Southern California for the last 3 years, I have gained intimate knowledge of the price of perfect weather: traffic. How do you fix traffic in a “a sprawling mid-density city” such as Los Angeles or San Diego? This Sunday’s L.A. Times (“How to fix traffic”) gives some suggestions that most economists…
Since Easter just passed yesterady and we are still in the midst of the Passover holiday, today I decided to blog on the economics of religion. No, this title is not an oxymoron. A Businessweek article from 2004 (“Economists are getting religion“) cites the Economics of Religion as an emerging field. One of the leading…
Today, guest blogger Lindsay Oldenski will give her opinion about Alan Blinder’s recent comments regarding free trade and American job losses. Ms. Oldenski is an economics PhD student at the University of California-San Diego (UCSD) and specializes in topics related to international trade. Rethinking Free Trade? By Lindsay Oldenski According to a recent Wall Street…
Interested in applying to graduate school in economics? If so, the following two links may be helpful in both 1) deciding whether or not graduate school is for you, and 2) understanding how the application process works. Becoming an Economist: Advice from Current Economics PhD Students to Prospective Ones. Advice for Applying to Grad School…
If you are in graduate school, how do can you get your research published? A UC-San Diego Publishing Workshop website has some some advice regarding the best ways to publish your work in top journals. For economists, the two powerpoint presentations titled “Tips for navigating the road to publishing in graduate school” and “Top ten…
How much money do health economists make? Using a 2005 survey of about 1500 members of the International Health Economics Association (iHEA), Cawley and Morrisey (2007) attempt to answer this question in a paper release this month in the Journal of Health Economics. For academic careers, the study finds the following mean earnings figures: …
Yesterday, the president of the Dominican Republic Leonel Fernández announced that the DR-CAFTA free trade agreement between the DR and the U.S. will now take effect as of March 1st, 2007 (see RDnoticias.com). Is this a good thing for the DR and the U.S.? A recent Wall Street Journal article (“One Year After CAFTA“) claimed…
The Eastern Economic Association (EEA) Conference I attended last weekend was a great experience. Economists from institutions across the nation attended and I was able to interact with a number of prominent economists. Below I will summarize a few of more interesting papers which I personally saw presented at the conference. To view an abstract…
Tonight I will be leaving for New York in order to present a paper at the Eastern Economic Association Annual Conference. The paper is titled “Adam Smith meets Paulus Salk: Estimating the social cost of influenza vaccination regulation.” This research has been performed in conjunction with John Fontanesi (UCSD), Mark Messonnier (CDC), and Bo-Hyun Cho…