Rock/pop star mortality increases relative to the general population with time since fame. Increases are greater in North American stars and those with solo careers.
Relative mortality begins to recover 25 years after fame in European but not North American stars. Those reaching fame from 1980 onwards have better survival rates.
For deceased stars, cause of death was more likely to be substance use or risk-related in those with more adverse childhood experiences.
Those reaching fame from 1980 onwards have better survival rates.
For deceased stars, cause of death was more likely to be substance use or risk-related in those with more adverse childhood experiences.
Dying to be famous: the mortality rates of 1489 rock and pop stars, 1956 and 2006.
24 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in health and safety, health economics, labour economics, Music, occupational choice Tags: compensating differentials, life expectancy, risk risk trade-offs
The opportunity cost of renewable energy subsidies
22 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, environmental economics, global warming, health economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: climate alarmism, evidence-based policy, global warming, green rent seeking
Green parties score 2/3 on this test?
21 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, health economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, technological progress Tags: 9/11, anti-vaccination movement, antiscience left, conspiracy theories, expressive voting, GMOs, inspiriting theorists, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, risk risk trade-offs, vaccines
The impact of religion and science on life expectancy
21 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of religion, health economics, technological progress Tags: life expectancy, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
The GMO food die-hard GMO opponents love (and oppose a label for)
20 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, environmental economics, health economics, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: antiscience left, expressive voting, food labelling, GMOs, product labelling, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
How infectious and deadly are the infectious diseases?
20 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: AIDS, Ebola, HIV, infectious diseases, measles
Visualised: how Ebola compares to other infectious diseases bit.ly/1sH3dDR http://t.co/vNadhO5NB6—
Guardian Data (@GuardianData) October 15, 2014
Yield of organic crops as percentage of conventional crops
16 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, environmentalism, health economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: agricultural economics, food snobs, organic farming
Yield of organic row crops as percentage of conventional
ganaderiayagro.blogspot.com/2015/05/organi… http://t.co/pjdbNEhvSH—
C. S. Prakash (@AgBioWorld) June 01, 2015
Why organic food costs more? -relative yield vs. conventional
ganaderiayagro.blogspot.com/2015/05/organi… http://t.co/xWcQiJoZ6K—
C. S. Prakash (@AgBioWorld) June 01, 2015
Improvements in life expectancy since 1900
15 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, environmental economics, health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, antiscience left, conspiracy theories, conspiracy theorists, life expectancy, Quacks, The Great Escape
Salads poison more Americans than hamburgers
15 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
Salads poison more Americans than hamburgers. vox.com/2015/6/11/8766… http://t.co/XlsFbp5g16—
C. S. Prakash (@AgBioWorld) June 14, 2015
Life expectancy and healthy life expectancy by gender, Anglo-Saxon countries
15 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics, labour economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, population economics Tags: ageing society, healthy life expectancy, life expectancy, The Great Escape
Figure 1: life expectancy and healthy life expectancy of women, Anglo-Saxon countries, 2010
Source: OECD family database.
Figure 2: life expectancy and healthy life expectancy of men, Anglo-Saxon countries, 2010
Source: OECD family database
Thousands deliberately overdose on homoeopathic medications! What happened?
14 Jun 2015 1 Comment
in health economics Tags: bribery, conjecture and refutation, homoeopathy, quackery, Quacks
Over the weekend of February 5th-6th 2011, more than 1500 homeopathy sceptics across the globe took part in a mass homeopathic ‘overdose’ to make a simple statement: Homeopathy – There’s Nothing In It.
Where was malaria once prevalent?
14 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: endemic diseases, global warming, infectious diseases, malaria, The Great Escape
Malaria was prevalent in Europe & USA
More in my Visual History of Global Health: OurWorldInData.org/VisualHistoryO… http://t.co/Fm21vXZJkS—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) June 08, 2015


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