Behavioral Economics and Public Policy | Health & Well-being

Risky Business: Health Risk, Relativity, and Perception

Byadmin April 1, 2009

Patt Morrison of KPCC Radio in Southern California talks to me about how people make various rational and irrational decisions in their lives. CLICK HERE to listen.

Behavioral Economics and Public Policy

Emotional Adaptation and Desire
Byadmin August 27, 2014

I’ve done a fair amount of research on how people emotionally adapt to life circumstances. My research is mainly in the context of illness and disability, where people bounce back from adversity more than expected. But people can also emotionally adapt to good things, a very important phenomenon for consumer behavior. We are ecstatic when…

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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy

When An American Teenager Dies There’s a 1 in 5 Chance It Was From A Gunshot Wound
Bypeter November 13, 2019January 21, 2020

As a father of two adolescent boys, I think often about the risks they face. I just came across a terrifying statistic that will haunt me: a huge proportion of deaths among adolescents occur as a result of firearms. (To read the rest of the article, please visit Forbes.)

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Finally on Fox?
Byadmin August 8, 2011

As all of you know, my goal in life is to be a regular on Fox News. Well, anyway, here is a link to a Fox News story on happiness and all that stuff, which quotes me, and even places me back in Michigan. Let’s do the time warp . . . ?

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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy

Denying Jobs To Smokers Is Bad Policy
Byadmin August 30, 2013

My former employer, the University of Pennsylvania Health System, no longer hires tobacco users. It has joined a growing group of employers, including many health systems, that discriminate against smokers on the grounds that such employees cost the employer money (through loss in productivity) or, in the case of medical institutions, act against the health promoting…

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Health & Well-being | Health Care Cost | Health Policy

Here's Why Funding Medical Education Helps Vulnerable Patients
Byadmin November 7, 2014

An article in the New England Journal of Medicine in June (no one accused me of being a timely blogger!) shows that academic medical centers often provide poorly-reimbursed services that other healthcare institutions avoid. Where more general hospitals might avoid having psychiatric emergencies available, 90% of academic medical centers offer such services: Whereas only 4%…

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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy | Health Policy

Medicare Costs and the Income Trap
Byadmin November 25, 2008

Paying Doctors Less Is the Key to Better Coverage Conservatives propose to control healthcare costs by bringing the discipline of the free market to bear upon the healthcare system. Some progressive groups advocate controlling costs with a more interventionist plan. But neither approach, as far as I have seen, adequately confronts one of the biggest…

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Risky Business: Health Risk, Relativity, and Perception

Emotional Adaptation and Desire

When An American Teenager Dies There’s a 1 in 5 Chance It Was From A Gunshot Wound

Finally on Fox?

Denying Jobs To Smokers Is Bad Policy

Here's Why Funding Medical Education Helps Vulnerable Patients

Medicare Costs and the Income Trap

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