David Cutler and Ed Glaeser on the Health and Wealth of Cities

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Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 8 September 2021

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

With remote work becoming more common and cities competing for businesses it’s become easier than ever before for educated Americans to relocate, leaving cities more vulnerable than they’ve ever been. In their new book, Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation, economists David Cutler and Ed Glaeser examine the factors that will allow some cities to succeed despite these challenges, while others fail.

They joined Tyler for a special joint episode to discuss why healthcare outcomes are so correlated with education, whether the health value of Google is positive or negative, why hospital price transparency is so difficult to achieve, how insurance coding systems reimburse sickness over health improvement, why the U.S. quit smoking before Europe, the best place in America to get sick, the risks that come from over-treatment, the possible upsides of more businesses moving out of cities, whether productivity gains from remote work will remain high, why the older parts of cities always seem to be more beautiful, whether urban schools will ever improve, why we shouldn’t view Rio de Janeiro’s favelas as a failure, how 19th century fights to deal with contagious diseases became a turning point for governance, Miami's prospects as the next tech hub, what David and Ed disagree on, and more.

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Recorded August 31st, 2021

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0:29.3	Hello everyone and welcome back to ConversationsWithT Tyler.
0:33.0	Today I am here with two Harvard economists who have a new book out co-authored.
0:38.4	And the two economists are David Cutler and Ed Glazer.
0:42.2	The new book is called Survival of the City, living and thriving in an age of isolation.
0:48.4	So it's about urbanism, it's about the pandemic, it's about healthcare economics, and much
0:52.8	more.
0:53.8	First I will be starting with David Cutler, who is professor of economics at Harvard.
0:58.6	David is well known as simply being one of the very best healthcare economists ever.
1:04.5	David, welcome.
1:05.5	Well thank you very much for having me.
1:07.5	It's a pleasure to be able to see and speak with you.
1:10.4	Here are all the questions I want to ask you about your work.
1:13.5	To start, why does education predict health, above and beyond its ability, to predict health
1:18.8	behaviors and to predict income?
1:22.6	One of the most important things that we've observed about the world is that people are
1:26.7	better educated or in better health.
1:28.5	That's true, virtually systematically, and it's increasingly so over time, that is, the
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