Quotation of the Day
Thought can be lofty without being elegant, but to the extent it lacks elegance it will have less effect on others. Force without finesse is mere mass. Fernando Pessoa from The Book of Disquiet
Category: Miscellaneous
Helping strangers or kin: which person is more ethical?
Who is the more ethical person: those who help strangers or those who help family members? The answer is: it depends. According to McManus et al. (2020), the answer is “it depends”. In Studies 1 and 2, agents who helped a stranger were judged as more morally good and trustworthy than those who helped kin,…
Cartoon of the day
Redesigning health care is not as easy as it may seam.
Labor Day Special: Does vacation improve your well-being?
According to a paper by Bloom et al. (2010), the answer is ‘yes’…at least in the short run. The authors studied 96 workers from the Netherlands and asked these individuals about their well-being two weeks before their vacation, during their vacation and 1, 2 and 4 weeks after their vacation. Wellbeing was measured based on…
Brewers make the playoffs!
We will pause our regularly scheduled health economics posting to celebrate my home team, the Milwaukee Brewers, making it to the playoffs. Enjoy some non-health economics related videos. Regularly scheduled health economics posting will return tomorrow. This is only the beginning. #OurCrewOurOctober pic.twitter.com/8krT1RCOKS — Milwaukee Brewers (@Brewers) September 27, 2018 The best clip you'll watch…
Investment, information and death
An interesting piece on death and mourning in modern compared to more traditional cultures from the Oxford University Press (OUP) blog. Human relationships require huge investments and generate massive benefits, and we are not willing to let go of them unless we have unequivocal evidence that the person is dead…It is now generally accepted in…
Base jokes
Some math-based entertainment for your Tuesday.
100 citations
This week I passed the 100 citation mark on Google Scholar. This means over 100 peer-reviewed articles have cited my own peer-reviewed research. To take a look at my full list of publications, please visit my Google Scholar page.
Research
Not what the Healthcare Economist would do, but entertaining nonetheless… Plus this quotation: “Since learning about confirmation bias, I keep seeing it everywhere!” Hat tip: Better Humans and The Browser
Useful mental models
Gabriel Weinberg, CEO of DuckDuckGo, has a list of mental models that he believes “come up repeatedly in day-to-day decision making, problem solving, and truth seeking.” Many are from the world of economics, but I focus on non-economic models as well. I organzie them into categories based on how Weinberg did in his post. I have…