The Affordable Care Act Will Push More Women Than Men Into Part-Time Work

Casey Mulligan writes:

The ACA imposes a penalty on large employers (generally those with 50 or more workers) who fail to provide health insurance for each of their full-time employees-defined by the ACA as those working 30 hours a week or more. Because part-time employees do not count toward the penalty, the provision induces employers to reduce more of their workers to 29 hours a week or less-a group now being referred to as the "29ers."...[A] number of positions have traditionally been 30-to-39-hour jobs, and those who occupy these jobs typically will have less trouble adapting to a 29-hour schedule that avoids the employer penalty or allows the worker to get the ACA's new assistance. Women are at least twice as likely as men to be in those positions, which means they are twice as likely to be 29ers once the new health law goes into full effect.

Here's What Happens When You Don't Understand Bussiness Cycle Theory...

...and just sit in your office playing with equations. You can write columns that say there was no real estate bubble. From University of Chicago Professor Casey B. Mulligan

...maybe there was a good, rational reason for housing prices to increase over the last decade....According to the bubble theory, for a while the market was overcome with exuberance, meaning that people were paying much more for housing than changes in incomes, demographics, technology and other basic factors would suggest....But another interpretation is that a large fraction of the housing price boom was justified by fundamentals (and next week I’ll consider some of the specific fundamentals that may have permanently increased housing demand in the 2000s). If so, we are probably asking too much of the Federal Reserve and other regulators to accurately disentangle bubbles from fundamentals the next time that asset prices rise.

Not a hint of understanding of the business cycle. See the business cycle beautifully explained in 1937 by Fritz Machlup, here.