Daily Policy Digest
Government Issues
| Are the Poor Eating the Wrong Kinds of Food? What if, instead of the poor not eating too little food, they are eating the wrong kinds of food, depriving them of nutrients needed to be successful, healthy adults?... |
| Explaining Poverty Private property produces systemically different incentives and results from collective property... |
| Safe Food Does Not Need to Be Legislated Seventy percent of food borne illness (and presumably deaths) results from poor food-handling procedures during preparation, not from poor food-production practices... |
| Are Democratic Presidents More Successful than Republican Presidents? Party differences in economic performance are shown to be the effects of economic conditions inherited from the previous president... |
| People Overestimate Risk In the face of a low-probability risk, people often exaggerate the benefits of preventive, risk-reducing or ameliorative measures... |
| Democracy and Rainfall When it comes to the distribution of democracy across the globe, it's mostly about the rainfall, a new study suggests... |
| Market-Based Solution to Parking Problems Sixteen studies conducted between 1927 and 2001 found that, on average, 30 percent of the cars in congested traffic were cruising for parking... |
| Income and Democracy A number of recent empirical studies have cast doubt on the "modernization theory" of democratization, which posits that increases in income are conducive to increases in democracy levels... |
| Public Employees Double Dip in Retirement There is a growing number of public employees who are retiring and then going right back to the same jobs, enabling them to supplement their income with retirement benefits without really retiring... |
| Does Increased Legislative Oversight Result in "Better" Regulations? Regulatory reformers at the state and federal levels should take note that procedural control of bureaucratic agencies is unlikely to be a particularly effective reform... |
