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Movie theaters raise prices for big movies. Streaming services create cheaper tiers. How elastic is demand for film and TV?

This week's links include reflections on a Nobel prize for causal inference with non-observational data, revisiting the advantages of randomization inference, lessons from Pratham's work, and more...

As health care delivery evolves from the pandemic, SIEPR’s Liran Einav and his colleagues find that concerns over higher costs and lower-quality care from telemedicine may well be overblown.

How to Fix the Hot Mess of U.S. Healthcare (Ep. 456) March 31, 2021 @ 11:00pm Listen now: Medicine has evolved from a calling into an industry, adept at dispensing procedures and pills (and gigantic bills), but less good at actual health. Most reformers call for big, bold action. What happens if, instead, you think small? Listen and subscribe to our podcast at  *      *      * Stephen DUBNER: So I think the general perception is that the American healthcare system is just messed ...

INDIA New England News Amy Finkelstein (MIT) CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — About 35 percent of women get annual mammograms from age 40 onward. But the value of those screenings has been much debated, because mammograms for people in their 40s catch relatively few cases of breast cancer, generate plenty of false positive results, and produce some cases of unnecessary treatment. Thus, while some organizations have advocated for testing to start at age 40, in 2009 the U.S. Preventive Services ...

 E-Mail About 35 percent of women get annual mammograms from age 40 onward. But the value of those screenings has been much debated, because mammograms for people in their 40s catch relatively few cases of breast cancer, generate plenty of false positive results, and produce some cases of unnecessary treatment. Thus, while some organizations have advocated for testing to start at age 40, in 2009 the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommended that women start regular mammogram screening a...