One Nation, Incentivized and Disincentivized

By EmmaZahn on Sat, 07/06/2013 - 11:43am |

The high cost of childbirth in the U.S. is the product of a mix of private- and public-sector decisions, not a straight-out result of government policy. But it nonetheless got a few of my HBR colleagues and me thinking about what strange and not-so-strange economic incentives Americans face relative to citizens of other nations. So here is a mostly unscientific Independence Day list — compiled with lots of help from the databases of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, a.k.a. the OECD, a.k.a. the rich nations' club — of what sort of behaviors we're collectively encouraging and discouraging.

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http://blogs.hbr.org/fox/2013/07/one-nation-incentivized-and-disincentivized.html