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...each person's health 18 months later. Since previous studies on employment and health suffered from a chicken-or-egg conundrum - researchers could never be sure whether the stresses and strains of unemployment led to poorer health, or whether people's poor health led to missed work days and lower productivity, which contributed to job loss - Strully focused on people who reported having lost their job due to factors out of their control, such as the entire company shutting its doors. (See the worst business deals...
...trade schemes can do much to mitigate the short-term effects of climate change. But it should be remembered that, although the most salient concern of the legislation in the U.S. is to quickly lower the aggregate amount of emissions with hurting the economy, this should not be the only concern. The moral and cultural dimensions of climate change must be also addressed. The only way up from the global fall from grace is to work together and consider what’s fair and important in the long...
...make a major announcement about Harvard’s budgetary priorities for the next fiscal year, as well as the procedures to decide future budget cuts. While Smith has many concerns to address, I (and many others) would urge him to take the needs of Harvard’s lower-income workers into account. At an institution in which values such as diversity, sustainability, and public service—none of them “core” to Harvard’s educational mission—nonetheless inhabit the niche of respected priorities, where on the totem pole...
...have a campaign where you don't necessarily make your children do all their homework. How is that going? I hate homework. In lower school, when you say to the teacher, this is all we're going to do, it's amazing how they will agree. I think teachers know what a colossal waste of time homework is. It changes in middle school, and I do make my daughter do all her homework. But I really feel strongly that our kids do way too much homework. The research is on my side. It's easy to make a fuss when...
...contraception. This has always been the embedded irony of the fight over sex education. The increased emphasis on abstinence in the past 15 years has been one factor in pushing back the age at which kids have their first sexual encounters, reducing the number of partners they have and lowering both the teen abortion rates and pregnancy rates (though this year has seen a small uptick). The problem with Abstinence Only education was not the Abstinence, it was the Only. The most effective message, as evidenced in every other industrial country with teen pregnancy rates far lower than ours...