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Daily Archive for March 11th, 2013

It Must Be All That Fracking Happening in New Jersey

Posted in Environment, Health Care on Mar 11th, 2013

In today’s pile of economic research papers (you know, the stuff that at least tries to use rigorous tools to test theories and provide evidence): Something in the Water: Contaminated Drinking Water and Infant Health by Janet Currie, Joshua S. Graff Zivin, Katherine Meckel, Matthew J. Neidell, Wolfram Schlenker  – NBER Working Paper #18876 This paper provides estimates […]

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Corporate Social Responsibility, for Some Corporations Only

Posted in Environment, You Can't Have it Both Ways on Mar 11th, 2013

This week we are treated to this: Eric Bettleheim, environmental and financial markets expert, and distinguished Rochester alum, gave a guest lecture in one of my classes. His topic, which I found particularly stimulating, was the reality of corporate social responsibility, or CSR. CSR is defined as “the duty a corporation has to create wealth […]

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