An Emotional Rollercoaster: Trends in Subjective Wellbeing During the...
Since 2008 Gallup has polled a random sample of 1,000 Americans daily (link here) about their subjective well-being. The data provide a rich basis for examining the short-run effects of the economic...
View ArticleImmigration and the Moral Claim to Health Benefits
Remember this moment? Barack Obama: “There are also those who claim that our reform effort will insure illegal immigrants. This, too, is false – the reforms I’m proposing would not apply to those who...
View ArticleDon’t Hire Smokers?
Dueling perspective articles in this month’s New England Journal debate whether it is ethical for employers to refuse to hire smokers. Health care employers (including the University of Pennsylvania...
View ArticleWho 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...
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