This study asks and answers a simple question: “Does Health Insurance Make You Fat?” Jay Bhattacharya, Kate Bundorf, Noemi Pace, and Neeraj Sood, NBER [National Bureau of Economic Research] working paper no. 15163, July 2009. (Thanks to Grover Weston for bringing this to our attention.) The authors explain: “We find weak evidence that more generous […]
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Ig Nobel talk (and webcast) at NIH on Wednesday
Marc Abrahams will give this week’s NIH Director’s Wednesday Afternoon Lecture talk, at the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda, Maryland. The topic will be “Improbable Research and the Ig Nobel Prizes.” The event, at 3 pm (US eastern time), Wednesday, February 19, is open to the public, free. It will also be webcast. The […]
