Are States Created Equal? Moving to a State With More Expensive Childcare Reduces Mothers' Odds of Employment

Are doctors created equal ?

There is broad consensus among policy makers and consumer groups that greater transparency in healthcare will improve the quality and costs of care delivered. In recent years several government-led transparency initiatives have focused on healthcare institutes like hospitals (Jha et al. 2005, Harris and Buntin 2008). Up to now patients still have very little means of discerning the quality of p...

"all Antidepressants Are Created Equal" (some Are More Equal than Others)

"All antidepressants have a 60-70% response rate". "Nobody has ever proved that one antidepressant is better than another". How far are these statements true? Does this mean that antidepressants are interchangeable? All marketable drugs are categorized as belonging to a particular class depending upon specific biochemical or pharmacological properties. Grouping together drugs in this fashion ha...

Are All Generics Created Equal?

Such genericity is a feature of entire sentences (or at least of entire clauses), and is not attributable to any subpart of the sentence, such as to the subject noun phrase or to the verb phrase. It is instead somehow an interaction between the two. This sets it apart from another type of genericity, which is attributed to the noun phrase’s referring to an abstract genus (or kind) and not as ma...

Not All Effects Are Created Equal: A Rejoinder To Sawilowsky

Not All Ops Are Created Equal!

Efficient and compact neural network models are essential for enabling the deployment on mobile and embedded devices. In this work, we point out that typical design metrics for gauging the efficiency of neural network architectures – total number of operations and parameters – are not sufficient. These metrics may not accurately correlate with the actual deployment metrics such as energy and me...