Tuesday assorted links

1. Health care and Medicaid effectiveness: “We find a 0.13 percentage point decline in annual mortality,
a 9.3 percent reduction over the sample mean, associated with Medicaid expansion for this population. The effect is driven by a reduction in disease-related deaths and grows over time…”

2. Some new Greg Clark results on heritability.

3. David Brooks on top artworks (NYT).  And Ross Douthat on stagnation (NYT).

4. RIP Marylou Whitney, passing of an age.  The NYT obit is better yet.

5. Six-figure deal for Claudia Goldin at Princeton University Press.

6. China’s payments of intellectual property fees over time.