User:Nmittal22/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Capitation (healthcare)


 * Article Evaluation
 * Capitation is not a very well-known or universally popular payment arrangement within the health care industry. The article attempts at providing and explanation of its core components, but is incredibly brief and generally quite vague. It is hard to determine the neutrality of the content, as some facts about the incentives that come with capitation will naturally contain bias, but the limited detail provided definitely does a good job at trying to remain neutral and factual throughout. There is a lack of focus on any material outside of the US ecosystem, and the information provided is based very heavily on a single source. The article could definitely benefit from a bigger source range and more information about the different versions of this healthcare scheme across states or within other countries - though acknowledging that not many other countries have capitation as a system. I think the incentives and care sections can definitely use more work as well, as those are probably the areas that readers are more interested in, and will require research from a wider scope of sources than the article currently uses.


 * Sources
 * http://www.standarderrors.org/
 * Health Affairs (Project Hope)

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Tragedy of the commons


 * Article Evaluation
 * This is a very specific topic area, and I think the information provided was definitely sufficient for a good understanding of the tragedy. It was actually sectioned off extremely well, and it was one of the first articles that I felt like went into enough supplementary detail without straying from the topic area too much. The article also made claims related to psychology, biology, and governmental policy and thus had very well-backed, reliable citations to support each of those. I think there was a little bit too much focus on the history of the tragedy, which felt a little distracting but provided for context that I think some readers would find very helpful. The talk page indicated that some of the material could be better suited for Wikisource, which might be a consideration for improvement.


 * Sources
 * http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/
 * http://www.conservation-strategy.org/en/csf-econ-video-lessons?term_node_tid_depth=381
 * https://localizationpapers.org/averting-the-tragedy-of-the-commons/

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Information Asymmetry


 * Article Evaluation
 * For a topic area that plays a huge role in the study of economics, the article doesn't seem to do it much justice. The article is largely theoretical, and neutral in that sense, but focuses primarily on models and research studies within the field as a vacuum. The claims are definitely well cited, and the citations are reliable; heavily grounded in behavioral economics studies. I think the article would benefit from more applications outside of specific research studies, and some diagrams or figures that can help readers to understand the relevance of information asymmetry in economic decision making.


 * Sources
 * http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/research/math/papers/547.pdf
 * https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/41966/1/MPRA_paper_41966.pdf
 * https://doi.org/10.1111%2F0022-1082.00305

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Internality


 * Article Evaluation
 * Though internalities may not be part of the core of public economics as a subject/field, I would have expected the wikipedia past to be more robust. There is a very theoretical and generic discussion provided, in the format of three paragraphs without any sectioning. The content is definitely written with a neutral tone but there is no sense of real-world application, which makes it hard to contextualize. There are minimal citations used throughout the very short piece, but the primary journal articles are definitely reliable - and quite interesting to read. I think the article would really benefit from a greater discussion of internalities in relation to externalities, additional context for the hand-drawn diagrams and theoretical explanation, and potentially some examples as a separate section.


 * Sources
 * https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2836334
 * http://web.law.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/microsites/policing-litigation-conference/files/Internalities%20background%20paper%20for%20Columbia_0.pdf
 * http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/should-we-tax-internalities-externalities/full

Option 5

 * Article title
 * Externalities of automobiles


 * Article Evaluation
 * Due to the specificity of the topic area being externalities of automobiles, the content was definitely relevant to the topic and didn't stray too far away for the most part. I would classify it as neutral as well, but there was definitely a bigger focus on the negative externalities as opposed to the positive - as a result of the topic at hand. Almost every claim had a citation, most of which were reliable, but there was definitely an underlying assumption of US-based issues and solutions so naturally the sources that followed were also much more US centric.


 * Sources
 * http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/heep/ee-workshop_131024-25/supp/2.a%20Anderson/ParryWallsHarrington2007.pdf http://ec.europa.eu/transport/themes/sustainable/doc/2008_costs_handbook.pdf
 * https://www.accessmagazine.org/fall-2009/traffic-congestion-greenhouse-gases/

Chosen Article: Capitation (healthcare)