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Even more important for the time period we study, the implementation of Medicaid and its later expansions to pregnant low-income women...

Money quote from the paper: The data suggest that residents of high-income states have enacted policies and adopted behaviors with...

eh no one is claiming that...it is a multitude of policy interventions...those two are prominent examples

It seems to me that there is an alternative. Which is to bypass the Strait and use Oman as a transshipment hub. Look at the map...

I think the pressure will build very fast to declare victory and get out of Dodge.

Most of the feedstock for sulfuric acid also transits through the Strait. Sulfuric acid is needed to extract copper and cobalt. Which...

Now let's talk about food. 33% of the world's nitrogen fertilizer feedstock moves through the Strait. Half of all humans alive today...

Qatar ships 30% of Taiwan's liquefied natural gas through Hormuz. Taiwan has 11 days of reserves left. TSMC, the company that makes 90%...

In this country we are looking at oil prices, but the interruption in natural gas supplies is of greater economic importance to Europe...

The Australians need to have someone to make fun of for their incomprehensible way of speaking.

I'm in favor of letting people decide whether to smoke or not. And I'm in favor of using governmental resources to provide them with...

Declines in smoking are the largest drivers of mortality reduction in both subperiods, while educational upgrading is the next largest...

Of course these people are academics, so their findings about the benefits of educational attainment should be taken with a grain of salt.

Another paper touching on some of these topics...

yeah i'm ok with the police enforcing seat belt laws by ticketing those of us who neglect to do so and i'm in favor of the laws...