Tag: Doug MacKay

Douglas MacKay was part of the NIH Ethics Grand Rounds: The Ethics of Randomized Policy Experiments on November 20. MacKay presented with Dean Karlan (Northwestern University). Watch The Ethics of Randomized Policy Experiments

Bioethics Forum Essay “Was This Job Market Study Ethical?”, Douglas MacKay, PhD, and Katherine Saylor, PhD, address concerns on a recent job market study conducted on Twitter that raised ethical questions on the Hastings Bioethics Forum.

I was fortunate to have a post-tenure research leave during the spring 2022 semester. I used the time away from teaching and service to complete a few projects which had been slowed by the pandemic, including a paper with Ali Huber-Disla on the ethics of soda taxes and a paper...

You can only save one— who do you choose? TED-Ed Animations, December 21, 2021

First published Tue Dec 23, 2008; substantive revision Mon Nov 1, 2021 Among American men, there is a 14.6 year difference in life expectancy between the top 1% and the bottom 1% of the income distribution (Chetty et al. 2016). Among American women, the corresponding difference is 10.1 years. In...

Public Policy Experiments Ethical Challenges & Paths Forward. Wake Forest University Center for Bioethics, Health & Society, November 11, 2021

Ethics in Research. OTT 2020 Conference, OnThinkTanks.org, November 10, 2021