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Dentist Crisis

Posted in Health Care on Jun 9th, 2009

I don’t remember reading about one. Here is the abstract from a new NBER Working Paper: In this paper we consider how the dental industry responded to the addition of fluoride to public drinking water. We take advantage of he staggered introduction of fluoridation throughout the country to analyze the changes in numbers of within-county […]

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The Real Cost of Impatience

Posted in Unintended Consequences on Sep 4th, 2008

Suppose, hypothetically of course, that you instruct a class of 175 students. The course is in a room that is 10 degrees warmer than it has any right to be. As expected, some students begin to squirm as the class nears its end (as if I am not interesting enough – imagine that!).

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