Comments for Inequalities http://inequalitiesblog.wordpress.com Research and reflection from both sides of the Atlantic Tue, 21 May 2013 22:44:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on ‘Infrahumanizing’ benefit claimants by (328) Infrahumanization | suburban-poverty.com http://inequalitiesblog.wordpress.com/2013/05/06/benefit-claimants-they-hurt-like-we-do/#comment-7082 Tue, 21 May 2013 22:44:47 +0000 http://inequalitiesblog.wordpress.com/?p=3261#comment-7082 […] Infrahumanizing benefit claimants  Inequalities blog […]

]]> Comment on AIDS, Science, and the Well-Being of the Poor by Bill Gardner http://inequalitiesblog.wordpress.com/2013/02/27/aids-science-and-the-well-being-of-the-poor/#comment-7067 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:25:33 +0000 http://inequalitiesblog.wordpress.com/?p=3064#comment-7067 Ben, that is very kind! Thanks so much.

]]> Comment on AIDS, Science, and the Well-Being of the Poor by Ben Baumberg http://inequalitiesblog.wordpress.com/2013/02/27/aids-science-and-the-well-being-of-the-poor/#comment-7066 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:18:14 +0000 http://inequalitiesblog.wordpress.com/?p=3064#comment-7066 Bill, sorry that I only just read this now, I was particularly submerged in other work when you wrote this – but this is really interesting, and brilliantly written :-)

]]> Comment on Predicting smoking risk from your genes by Daniel Goldberg (@prof_goldberg) http://inequalitiesblog.wordpress.com/2013/05/16/predicting-smoking-risk-from-your-genes/#comment-7034 Sat, 18 May 2013 14:09:28 +0000 http://inequalitiesblog.wordpress.com/?p=3315#comment-7034 Great post!

I’d also take a long look at some of Claudia Chaufan’s work on the utility of these kinds of studies for social policy. (She’s quite skeptical in general).

]]> Comment on Why progressives in Europe should learn to love high tuition fees by church singer for wedding http://inequalitiesblog.wordpress.com/2010/09/27/why-progressives-in-europe-should-learn-to-love-high-tuition-fees/#comment-7018 Fri, 17 May 2013 01:50:41 +0000 http://inequalitiesblog.wordpress.com/?p=98#comment-7018 Does your blog have a contact page? I’m having problems locating it but, I’d like
to shoot you an email. I’ve got some suggestions for your blog you might be interested in hearing. Either way, great blog and I look forward to seeing it expand over time.

]]> Comment on Predicting smoking risk from your genes by Bill Gardner http://inequalitiesblog.wordpress.com/2013/05/16/predicting-smoking-risk-from-your-genes/#comment-7013 Thu, 16 May 2013 20:47:00 +0000 http://inequalitiesblog.wordpress.com/?p=3315#comment-7013 thanks, Brendan. I will read Fletcher’s paper with interest. His work is great and he is disturbingly prolific.

]]> Comment on Predicting smoking risk from your genes by Brendan Saloner http://inequalitiesblog.wordpress.com/2013/05/16/predicting-smoking-risk-from-your-genes/#comment-7012 Thu, 16 May 2013 20:19:35 +0000 http://inequalitiesblog.wordpress.com/?p=3315#comment-7012 Great post — it matters so much for issues of social policy. Consider Jason Fletcher’s provocative paper from last year “Why Have Tobacco Control Policies Stalled? Using Genetic Moderation to Examine Policy Impacts” where he argues: “Variation in the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor was found to moderate the influence of tobacco taxation on multiple measures of tobacco use. Individuals with the protective G/G polymorphism (51% of the sample) responded to taxation while others had no response.” Especially as the pool of smokers winnows, the influence of genetics on who the remaining smokers are is likely to get stronger. Don’t you think? http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0050576

]]> Comment on Learning About Inequality Increases Concern, But Not Necessarily Support for Redistribution by Brendan Saloner http://inequalitiesblog.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/learning-about-inequality-increases-concern-but-not-necessarily-support-for-redistribution/#comment-7002 Wed, 15 May 2013 19:16:08 +0000 http://inequalitiesblog.wordpress.com/?p=3307#comment-7002 Ah busted!! If I read as many blog posts as I wrote, I might actually know something :P

In all seriousness, I’m looking forward to reading your post… it was a nutty couple weeks so I have some of this stuff in my queue… sorry for being repetitive!

]]> Comment on Learning About Inequality Increases Concern, But Not Necessarily Support for Redistribution by Ben Baumberg http://inequalitiesblog.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/learning-about-inequality-increases-concern-but-not-necessarily-support-for-redistribution/#comment-7001 Wed, 15 May 2013 18:56:55 +0000 http://inequalitiesblog.wordpress.com/?p=3307#comment-7001 I also blogged about this the other week, but under a completely different (misleading?) title – given that we don’t always get a chance to read each other’s stuff in busy periods, I’m surprised it hasn’t happened before! But it gives everyone a chance to see if we have the same take on it anyway :-)

]]> Comment on Learning About Inequality Increases Concern, But Not Necessarily Support for Redistribution by Charlotte Cavaille http://inequalitiesblog.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/learning-about-inequality-increases-concern-but-not-necessarily-support-for-redistribution/#comment-7000 Wed, 15 May 2013 18:16:28 +0000 http://inequalitiesblog.wordpress.com/?p=3307#comment-7000 I have some issues with how they measure trust in the government and the size of the effect so I would withhold judgment here. Also their treatment is super ideologically oriented, would be nice to see the effect of information about inequality seen through a conservative lens, does it turn people against taxing the top? more importantly provides micro-evidence for the two dimensions Kris-Stella Trump and I found for the UK and mentioned in an earlier post: redistribution away from the rich is different from redistribution to the poor. ( http://inequalitiesblog.wordpress.com/2012/07/03/the-two-types-of-attitudes-to-redistribution/ )

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