Healthcare Labor Markets
- Nursing Is the Surefire New Path to American Prosperity
Jeanne Whalen, Wall Street Journal, April 1, 2026
- Health Care Inc.
Bob Herman, STAT+, March 30, 2026
- Marginal Garfield
Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution, March 27, 2026
- Physician Incomes and the Extreme Shortage of High IQ Workers
Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution, March 24, 2026
- International Comparison of Physician Incomes
Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution, March 18, 2026
- The one thing driving U.S. job growth
Claire Donnelly and Meghna Chakrabarti, WBUR, March 5, 2026
- The Quiet Economic Force of Healthcare Jobs
Catherine Dunn, Barron's, February 13, 2026
- How Health Care Remade the U.S. Economy
Lydia DePillis and Christine Zhang, New York Times, July 3, 2025
- What are the 20 highest-paying jobs in America? Doctors, doctors, more doctors.
Daniel de Visé, USA Today, November 6, 2024
Healthcare Labor Markets, Continued
- Why doctors in America earn so much
The Economist, October 31, 2023
- A new paper suggests a simple fix to the primary care physician shortage
Annalisa Merelli, Stat, September 1, 2023
- Why Do So Few Doctors Want To Specialize In Caring For Older Adults?
Howard Gleckman, Forbes, August 15, 2023
- The real reason the highest-paid doctors are in the Dakotas
Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, August 11, 2023
- Are Doctors Overpaid?
The Imaging Wire, August 10, 2023
- Is Doctor Pay Too High? NIH Pulls Plug on Misinfo Research; FDA and EPA Butt Heads
Sophie Putka, MedPage Today, August 9, 2023
- Doctors are not saints': Physicians are tired of being blamed for their paychecks
Alexis Kayser, Becker's Hospital Review, August 9, 2023
- The average doctor in the U.S. makes $350,000 a year. Why?
Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, August 4, 2023
- Americans Believe Nurses Are Underpaid, New Study Says
Carol Davis, HealthLeaders, August 12, 2021
- What Health Care Policy Lessons Can We Draw From Physician Incomes?
Robert Orr, Niskanen Center, October 13, 2020
- Repealing the Affordable Care Act Could Hurt Physicians and Hospitals
Lina Zeldovich, MedicalBag, October 30, 2020
Market Size and Trade for Medical Services
- The political leanings of people who go on cruises, and more!
Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, March 24, 2023
- Why Medical Tourism Could Be Good Policy
Bob Simison, Chicago Booth Review, July 10, 2023
- Researchers say bring rural patients to urban doctors for better outcomes
Anthony Hennen, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 3, 2023
- Report: Transportation plays key role in health outcomes
Shannon Young, Healthcare Brew, May 10, 2023
- Strategies to bring better healthcare to rural communities
Amanda Schiavo, HealthLeaders Media, May 8, 2023
When Workers Travel: Nursing Supply During COVID-19 Surges
Experimenting With Entrepreneurship: The Effect of Job-Protected Leave
- Sweden's surprising rule for time off
Maddy Savage. BBC, Feb 6, 2019
- Want More Startups? Build a Better Safety Net
Noah Smith, October 2018, 2016
- Danny Vinik, Politico, Oct 14, 2016
- Protecting against risk can help boost U.S. entrepreneurship
Nick Bunter, Washington Center for Equitable Growth, July 26, 2016
The Complexity of Billing and Paying for Physician Care
- Duly Health to open its largest location yet in Schaumburg, after growing pains
Lisa Schenker, Chicago Tribune, July 30, 2025
- Economists Ask: Do Paperwork Hassles For Doctors Worsen Health Care Disparities?
Christine Herman, Illinois Public Media, July 26, 2021
- Understanding billing complexity for physician care in the US
Elsa Pearson, The Incidental Economist, April 19, 2018
- Billing Costs, Complexities for Physicians Called 'Absurd'
Kerry Dooley Young, Medscape, April 3, 2018
- A study that looked at physician billing estimates $11B-$54B in challenged revenue each year
Joanne Finnegan, FierceHealthcare, April 3, 2018
- High cost of billing complexity: Up to $54B in physician office revenue challenged every year
John Gregory, HealthExec, April 3, 2018
Do Physicians' Financial Incentives Affect Medical Treatment and Patient Health?
In the Shadow of a Giant: Medicare's Influence on Private Payment Systems
- Where Krugman Goes Wrong on Health Care
Stan Veuger, US News, May 22, 2014
- Medicare, the Gorilla in the Room, Weighs in at More than 800 Pounds
John Carroll, Managed Care, Feb 2014
- What Liberals Don’t Get About Single Payer
Ezra Klein, Bloomberg, January 8th, 2014
- Medicare huge influence in healthcare spending rates
FierceHealthFinance, January 2, 2014
- Medicare pricing drives high health-care costs
Peter Whoriskey, The Washington Post, Jan 1, 2014
- A cost shifting update
Austin Frakt, AcademyHealth Blog, December 12, 2013
- The Costly Effects of Medicare
National Center for Policy Analysis Daily Policy Digest, October 25, 2013
- How Medicare influences private payment systems (model this)
Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution, October 17, 2013
- Study: Medicare inefficiently raises private-sector healthcare spending
James Pethokoukis, AEIdeas, October 17, 2013
- Medicare Leads the Market in Setting Physician Payments" featured as "New NBER Research
Justine Hunter and Mike Hager, The Globe and Mail October 16, 2013
- Noted For Your Morning Procrastination on October 9, 2013"
Brad Delong,October 9. 2013
Unhappy Cities
- The Rich Are Not Who We Think They Are. And Happiness Is Not What We Think It Is, Either.
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, New York Times, May 14, 2022
- Why do people like bashing Pennsylvania?
BBC, November 26, 2014
- What Makes a City Unhappy
Dana McMahan, Pacific Standard November 21st, 2014
- Confessions of a Supply-Side Liberal
Miles Kimball, Oct 17, 2014
- 2014′s Most and Least Happy States in America
WalletHub, Sep 22, 2014
- America’s Happiest Cities: What Makes a City a 'Happier' Place?
Jonathan Todd, UrbanLand, August 11, 2014
- New York’s Dour State of Mind
Slate, August 5, 2014
- The appeal of unhappy cities
The Washington Post, July 30, 2014
- The appeal of unhappy cities
Above the Law, July 29, 2014
- Sher-e-Punjab Radio AM 1550 Vancouver, July 28, 2014
- Does living in Boston make people unhappy?
Kevin Hartnett Boston GlobeJuly 27, 2014
- Passage: The happiest and unhappiest cities
CBS Sunday Morning, July 27, 2014
- Happiness is a place called Charlottesville, Virginia
Edward Helmore, The Guardian, July 27, 2014
- Charlottesville, Eh?, InstaPundit, July 26, 2014
- Map: The happiest places in America"
Danielle Kurtzleben, Vox, July 24, 2014
- Gary One of the Least Happy Cities But Does it Matter?
Lakeshore Public Media 89.1 FM, July 23, 2014
- Study Reveals The Most Unhappiest Cities in The US
Sarah Thomas, International Business Times, July 23, 2014
- How happy is your city? Study says Richmond is America's most contented area - with New York its unhappiest (but they say people come for the money anyway)"
Mark Brigg, Daily Mail (London), July 22, 2014
Unhappy Cities, Continued
- New York, America's Unhappiest City?
David Li, New York Post, July 22, 2014
- NYC Is the Unhappiest American City
Melissa Dahl, New York Magazine, July 22, 2014
- WINA 1070 Newsradio
July 22,, 2014
- Report: Philadelphia’s A Pretty Unhappy City, But New York Fares Far Worse
CBS Philadalphia, July 22, 2014
- Unhappiest Cities in the US
Simi Sara, CKNW 980 AM Vancouver, July 21, 2014The Guardian, July 27, 2014
- Lafayette, Baton Rouge among the top 5 happiest places in the U.S., report says
Diana Samuels, New Orleans Times-PicayuneJuly 21, 2014
- The Happiest And Unhappiest Cities In America May Surprise You"
Lindsay Holmes, Huffington PostJuly 21, 2014
- People who live in unhappy cities get better housing
Trey Garrison, HousingWire, July 21, 2014
- Who's happy? Survey says Shreveport-Bossier City third happiest nationally
Scott Ferrell, Shreveport Times, July 20, 2014
- New York City is the most unhappy city in America
Steve Goldstein, Wall Street Journal MarketWatch, July 18, 2014
- Living in unhappy cities used to get you more pay. Now, it gets you a better house
Steve Goldstein, Wall Street Journal MarketWatch, July 18, 2014
- Why Do People Move to 'Unhappy' Cities?
Live Interview, Wall Street Journal, July 16, 2014
- People who live in unhappy cities get better housing
Trey Garrison, HousingWire, July 21, 2014
- Study Reveals Why More People are Flocking to Unhappy Cities
Rati Gupta, Realty Today, July 16, 2014
- Editor's Choice, "What makes people move to 'unhappy' cities? It's the cost of living
Scott Suttell, Crain's Cleveland Business, July 15, 2014
- In the Papers: Prison, Prostitution and Unhappy Cities
Ben Casselman, FiveThirtyEightJuly 14, 2014
- Why People Still Move to 'Unhappy' Places
Eric Jaffe, CityLab, July 14, 2014
- Does Living in a City Make You Unhappy?
Sheryl Jean, Dallas Morning News Biz Beat Blog CityLab, April 22, 2014
Can Cheap Credit Explain the Housing Boom?
- Paper featured as "New NBER Research"
NBER, Jan 22, 2010
- Fannie and Freddie: guilty?s
Ryan Avent, The Economist Free Exchange Blog, Sep 21, 2010
- The housing bubble reconsidered,
Cardiff Garcia, Financial Times Alphaville BlogSep 2, 2010
- How much did interest rates matter for the housing boom?
Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution, Sep 1, 2010
- Interest Rates and House Prices: A Murky World
Edward Glaeser, The New York Times Economix blog, August 17, 2010
- For the Housing Convulsion, Good Data Is Hard to Find
Edward Glaeser, The New York Times Economix blog, August 10, 2010
- Fed Off the Hook for the Housing Bubble?
Alen Mattich, The Wall Street Journal, August 3, 2010
- Did Low Interest Rates Cause the Great Housing Convulsion?
Edward Glaeser, The Wall Street Journal, August 3, 2010
- Don't obsess over interest rates
Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution, August 3, 2010
- What caused housing boom?
The Boston Herald Getting Real Blog May 12, 2010
- Bursting the bubble about the causes of the housing bubble
Elizabeth Razzi, The Washington Post, May 8, 2010
- What Caused the Great Housing Maelstrom?
Edward Glaeser, CBS News, May 7, 2010
- Housing Bubble Was Whose Fault? Not the Fed's, Says New Study,
Lita Epstein, HousingWatch.com, May 7, 2010
- Research may exonerate Fed for housing bubble
Aaron Pressmna, Reuters, May 5, 2010
- Study puts new spin on the housing bubble,
Robert Gavin, The Boston Globe, May 5, 2010
- Loose Lending Didn't Create the Housing Bubble
Diana Olick, CNBC Realty Check blog, May 4, 2010
The Wealth of Cities: Agglomeration Economies and Spatial Equilibrium in the United States
Urban Resurgence and the Consumer City
- Living in a Yuppie Ghetto
The Economist Free Exchange blog, Feb. 3, 2008.
- Bowling Together: Sprawl and Social Virtue,,
Brian Doherty, Reason, March 2007.
- City, Heal Thyself
Robert Ellickson, Yale Law Journal Pocket Part, Dec 11, 2006
Medicare Payment and Inflation
Policy Commentary
- Interview with Josh Gottlieb, 2025 Ashecon Medal Recipient
Anne M. Burton, Fall 2025
- CKNW News 980 AM Vancouver
Jeremy Lye, March 4, 2016
- New mortgage rules not only solution for Canada's red-hot real estate market: academics
Jillian Bell, CBC, Feb 16, 2007.
- Debate night: Questions for the party leaders on the economy
Deane McRobie and BJ Siekierski, iPolitics, Sep 17, 2015
- Property vs sales taxes: which is the more efficient way of raising money for transit improvements?
CKWX News1130, March 20, 2015
- Public puts transportation issue on the election map"
Hayley Woodin, Business in Vancouver, Nov. 4, 2014.
- Only Hong Kong tops Vancouver as least affordable city"
Matthew Robinson, Vancouver Sun iPolitics, Jan. 21, 2014
B.C. Housing Affordability Fund
- Revised B.C. housing tax still a turn off for out-of-province homeowners
Naomi Powell, Financial PostMarch 29, 2018
- After 5 weeks, B.C. government had enough speculation over speculation tax
CBC, Justin McElroy, March 28, 2018
- Fear and uncertainty': Out-of-province homebuyers could rush to sell if B.C. slaps speculation tax
Geoffrey Morgan, Financial PostMarch 12, 2018
- Developing Squamish
Jennifer Thuncher, Squamish Chief, October 23, 2016
- The Early Edition
Rick Cluff, CBC, July 26, 2016
- Squeezed out: Renters losing homes as Lower Mainland owners cash in on hot market
Jennifer Saltman, The Province, June 11, 2016
- The Exchange:
Jennifer Saltman, CBC, May 12, 2016
- Taxing vacant homes would increase housing stock says economist
Rick Cluff CBC, March 9, 2016
- Balancing act
Justine Hunter and Mike Hager, The Globe and Mail Feb 12, 2016
- B.C. professors call for property surtax on vacant Vancouver housing
Frances Bula, The Globe and Mail Jan 18, 2016
- Additional interviews about the BCHAF proposal are listed here.