Three Interesting Things #10
1. Privatisatising Sanitation in Dakar, pertinent for the UK’s current debate on water utility funding models:
Privatizing sanitation in Dakar led to productivity improvements and arguably a ~5% reduction in diarrhea rates among children under five in Dakar.
— Michael Eddy (@MichaelEddy) September 27, 2021
New @nberpubs by @JoshDeutschmann @MollyMLipscomb @garsjared @lauraaschechter & Houdehttps://t.co/Wo78NT0NH0 #nbermonday #WASH pic.twitter.com/iTQOKGrBAZ
2. Black Americans report better self-esteem than their white counterparts, despite experiencing greater exposure to stress. This paper claims that better self-esteem explains most of the difference in black-white differences in depressive symptoms: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00221465211041031
3. Yet another individual vs collective incentive misalignment. Politicians always complicate things, because they act rationally:
Why do government policies become so complicated? This great model of the political kludge shows us the answer: politicians will generally choose to add, rather than remove policies, since removing policies from a complex web may hurt their goals. Thus, complexity accumulates! pic.twitter.com/jfoLRf5Rmz
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) October 5, 2021
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