The Health Costs of Global Air Pollution
The State of Global Air 2019 report notes:
- 25/10/2019
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Interview with Emmanuel Farhi: Global Safe Assets and Macro as Aggregated Micro
David A. Price interviews Emmanuel Farhi in Econ Focus (Regional Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Second/Third Quarter 2019, pp. 18-23). Here are some tidbits:
- 24/10/2019
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Fentanyl and Synthetic Opioids: What's Happening, What's Next?
The US had 50,000 opioid-involved overdose deaths in 2019. This is similar to the number of people who died of AIDS at the peak of that crisis in 1995. For comparison, total deaths in car crashes is about 40,000 per year. My dark suspicion is that the opioid crisis gets less national media attention because its worse effects are concentrated in parts of Appalachia, New England, and certain mid-Atlantic states, rather than in big coastal cities.
- 24/10/2019
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A Nobel for the Experimental Approach to Global Poverty for Banerjee, Duflo, and Kremer
Several decades ago, the most common ways of thinking about problems of poor people in low-income countries involved ideas like the "poverty trap" and the "dual economy." The "poverty trap" was the idea low-income countries were close to subsistence, so it was hard for them to save and make the investments that would lead to long-term growth. The "dual economy" idea was that low-income countries had both traditional and a modern parts of their economy, but the traditional part had large numbers of subsistence-level workers. Thus, if or when the modern part of the economy expanded, it could draw on this large pool of subsistence level workers and so there was no economic pressure for subsistence wages to rise. In either case, a common policy prescription was that low-income countries needed a big infusion of capital, probably from a source like the World Bank, to jump-start their economies into growth.
- 22/10/2019
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Neuromyths about the Brain and Learning
"Neuromyths are false beliefs, often associated with education and learning, that stem from misconceptions or misunderstandings about brain function. Over the past decade, there has been an increasing amount of research worldwide on neuromyths in education." The Online Learning Consortium has published an International report: Neuromyths and evidence-based practices in higher education by the team of Kristen Betts, Michelle Miller, Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa, Patricia A. Shewokis, Alida Anderson, Cynthia Borja, Tamara Galoyan, Brian Delaney, John D. Eigenauer, and Sanne Dekker.
- 21/10/2019
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