Latest articles- Has Income Inequality Really Ballooned Since the 1970s? June 13, 2013 Brendan Saloner
- Attitudes to redistribution: does it matter where you live? May 31, 2013 Guest Blogger
- Tax breaks for useful jobs May 10, 2013 Guest Blogger
- Latest short posts
- Latest comments
- Comment on Who Gets Health Care Priority? Resource Allocation in a Middle Income Country by ttmmeditation
- Comment on The Earned Income Tax Credit is a Very Good Investment in Infant Health by Income redistribution and infant health | The Incidental Economist
- Comment on Big Announcement: Inequalities Blog Welcomes Two New Contributor Editors by earn money online
RSS feed
Tag Archives: health
Who Gets Health Care Priority? Resource Allocation in a Middle Income Country
Adriane Gelpi, a doctoral candidate in Health Policy at Harvard and a fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, describes the intricate ethics and politics of health care resource allocation in Chile. This was originally posted on the … Continue reading
Posted in Blog posts
Tagged ethics, health, priority setting, public health, resource allocation
1 Comment
Ease off the alarm bells: New data on ADHD diagnosis rates
The New York Times has a cover story today reporting on the estimated prevalence of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder from the 2011-2012 National Survey of Children’s Health (they don’t identify the survey by name). The story is going to get a lot … Continue reading
The red rag of health incentives
In this guest post, Harald Schmidt from the University of Pennsylvania takes apart the media furore about a proposal (at least as reported) to cut payments to unhealthy benefit claimants if they didn’t go to the gym – using the insights gained … Continue reading
Adding Health Care Spending to the Poverty Equation
I discussed the challenges of measuring poverty in the United States in a three part series on this blog last year. The official poverty line is based on pre-tax income adjusted for household size. The main alternative to the official … Continue reading
Paul Gregg: new ideas for disability, employment and welfare reform
While cuts to benefits and services will affect most people in the UK, disabled people have arguably been ‘the hardest hit’ - but while this makes the newspapers on a regular basis, academics have been slower to try and piece together … Continue reading
The Cost of a Disabled Sibling
If you have brothers or sisters, then you already know that an important piece of your childhood experience is out of your control. You cannot control whether your siblings are kind or cruel, generous or stingy, and you certainly cannot … Continue reading
Life Expectancy in the U.S. is Getting Shorter for the Least Educated
The late 20th century brought landmark public health movements to the United States, like the control of tobacco, and medical breakthroughs in the treatment of heart disease and cancer. Life expectancy surged overall, but today the lower educated are still … Continue reading
Give George W. Bush Some Credit for this Community Health Success
The United States does not have a National Health Service – certainly nothing that we could display with a choreographed song and dance routine – but the federal government does support an extensive network of safety net health clinics. According … Continue reading
Inequality Roundup, Stories in the News
Today I want to post a roundup of some items in the news that piqued my interest, we have poverty measurement, disabilities, spending on children in the US, Medicaid and mortality, getting high schoolers to go to college, and health/income … Continue reading
Posted in Blog posts
Tagged children, disability, health, health insurance, higher education, poverty
Leave a comment
The Earned Income Tax Credit is a Very Good Investment in Infant Health
Welfare reform was a battle fought over the wisdom of using federal dollars to supplement the incomes of low-income mothers and their children. Yet, even as Congress in the 1990s worked to cut cash assistance in the Aid to Dependent … Continue reading
