Market Size and Trade for Medical Services

• 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
• The political leanings of people who go on cruises, and more!
  Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, March 24, 2023

When Workers Travel: Nursing Supply During COVID-19 Surges

• A bizarre Wisconsin hospital lawsuit shows how Covid-19 changed the balance of power for medical workers
  Dylan Scott, Vox, January 29, 2022
• Tired, numb and burned out: With hospitals short on workers, those remaining feel pushed to the edge by COVID-19
  Joe Mahr and Lisa Schenker Chicago Tribune, Dec. 21, 2020
• Flexibility of the nursing market has helped combat COVID-19
  Karthika Cohen The Nurse Practictioner, Dec. 21, 2020

Healthcare Labor Markets

• What are the 20 highest-paying jobs in America? Doctors, doctors, more doctors.
  Daniel de Visé, USA Today, November 6, 2024
• 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

The Complexity of Billing and Paying for Physician Care

• 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

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 TimesMay 14, 2022
• Medicare, the Gorilla in the Room, Weighs in at More than 800 Pounds
  John Carroll, Managed Care, Feb 2014
• 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, 201
• 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

In the Shadow of a Giant: Medicare's Influence on Private Payment Systems

• Where Krugman Goes Wrong on Health Care
  Stan Veuger, US NewsMay 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

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
• Billing Costs, Complexities for Physicians Called 'Absurd
  Kerry Dooley Young, "Medscape" April 3, 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.

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, Agusut 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

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, Politco, Oct 14, 2016
• Protecting against risk can help boost U.S. entrepreneurship
  Nick Bunter, Washington Center for Equitable Growth, July 26, 2016

Medicare Payment and Inflation

• Don’t Look Now, But There Are Signs Inflation Is Picking Up
  Ben Eisen, Wall Street Journal BBC, June 17, 2016
• Are Medicare cuts causing private insurer cuts?
  Austin Frakt, The Incidental Economist

The Wealth of Cities: Agglomeration Economies and Spatial Equilibrium in the United States

• Gotham on Thames
  Free Exchange, The Economist, Feb 25, 2016

Do Physicians' Financial Incentives Affect Medical Treatment and Patient Health?

• Claims about health care
  Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution, Dec 2, 2011
• In health care, fee-for-service means too many services
  Edward GlaeserThe Boston Globe, October 20, 2011

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