08/09/2023 Assorted Links

Assorted links from today’s online reading

1. Whack-a-Rat (New York Review of Books)

2. The Impact of Vaccines and Behavior on U.S. Cumulative Deaths from COVID-19 (NBER)

3. One simple reason why travel is important (Marginal Revolution)

4. If this is a bad economy, please tell me what a good economy would look like (Noahpinion)

5. The Socio Political Demography of Happiness (SSRN)

6. Health Policy: Finkelstein-Einav, Cowen, and me (In My Tribe)

7. You want to reduce the carbon footprint of your food? Focus on what you eat, not whether your food is local (Our World in Data)