Econ Comments & Analysis
NBER | Airports, Air Pollution, and Contemporaneous Health
We demonstrate that daily airport runway congestion contributes significantly to local pollution levels and contemporaneous health of residents living nearby and downwind from airports.
CBO | The Veterans Health Administration's Treatment of PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury Among Recent Combat Veterans
Through September 2011, about 740,000 veterans from overseas contingency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan had been treated by the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). That number is slightly more than half of all recent veterans eligible for care by VHA.
Blogs
Atlantic | New Drugs Cost Even More Than You Think
The standard figure for drug discovery thrown around by the industry's most avid critics is the Light and Warburton estimate of roughly $43 million.
The American | Can Uncle Sam pay for his healthcare promises? Healthcare fact of the week
To pay for the increases in federal health spending promised 75 years from now, federal income taxes that year would have to be 175 percent higher than they are today.
Café Hayek | Words vs. Subsidies
Many of my friends wonder why I’m annoyed by Michelle Obama’s constant mother-henning insistence that Americans eat more veggies. “She’s just encouraging people to voluntarily make healthier choices,” my mystified friends tell me.
