Interesting blog bits

1. Gray Becker comments on The Graying of College Faculties.
2. Richard Posner comments on Aging Professors
3. Mieke Reuser and Hendrik P. van Dalen discuss Aid and AIDS: A delicate cocktail.

   Development assistance targeting health overwhelmingly concentrates on HIV/AIDS. This column argues that that focus neglects critical demographic issues and degrades health infrastructure, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. The prime rule for AIDS aid should be “First, do no harm”.

4. Will Wilkinson comments on Two Views on Luck and Redistribution.
5. Jonathan Guryan, Erik Hurst and Melissa S. Kearney discuss Time with the kids: Parental education and child care

   Everyone knows that educated people earn more, smoke less, are less likely to be obese and live longer. This column discusses recent research that shows more educated parents also spend more time with their kids – a result ripe with implications for the inter-generational persistence of income and health inequalities.

6. The Visible Hand in Economics asks What is inflation?
7. The Times has an article on the fact that Scientists reopen debate over GM food.