Baby Arbitrage?

N. G Mankiw posted a link to the following article in NY Times.
The gist of the story is, with a huge tax benefit for having the baby before the end of the calendar year, people are starting to strategically bringing some January babies early into the world. Another example how the discontinuity in tax code create discontinuous behavior! The best part of the story is, wealthier people who are more likely to have tax-advises from experts, give birth to more "year-end" babies. Woh, let's wait and see more Ivy kids with a date of birth in December, 18 years later!

Flickering Mind: Attention Shortage

When I was young, one of my favorite pass-time was dictionary reading, specially reading the "Dictionary of Idioms". It usually started from an innocent reference for a specific word. The "also see" function thus usually directs the reader to another word or idiom that are equally interesting. Thus, I often ended up hopping from word to word following the pointers and eventually forgot about what I was doing. The "serendipity" type of knowledge discovery constitute a rare diverge in the mind of a studious high schooler.

In the internet age, the similar type distraction becomes so big that it becomes a threat to productivity and sobriety. My firefox window is usually crowded with 20-30 tabs, each of them half read and waiting to be re-visited. Preview window usually has at least 20 pdf papers opened up. None of which is lucky enough to master my full attention.
Here's a peek of the thumbnails of my running program

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