Freakonomics in the Times Magazine: Gift-Card Economy
Read the Column » Paying Not to Go to the Gym by Stefano DellaVigna and Ulrike Malmendier The Deadweight Loss of Christmas by Joel Waldfogel Why It Is So Hard…
Read the Column » Paying Not to Go to the Gym by Stefano DellaVigna and Ulrike Malmendier The Deadweight Loss of Christmas by Joel Waldfogel Why It Is So Hard…
…economic standpoint, do the arguments on either side hold up? Wharton economist Joel Waldfogel addresses this issue in his new book The Tyranny of the Market. When fixed costs are…
How many bottles of wine are regifted? What’s wrong with giving cash? And should Angela give her husband a subscription to the Sausage of the Month Club?
…get another reindeer-and-snowman muffler again. Thanks in advance, and happy everything. * Thanks to the economist Joel Waldfogel, the holiday season is always a fun time to think about deadweight…
…their popularity increase through viral Web distribution. The Wharton economist Joel Waldfogel (who has a new book out, The Tyranny of the Market) examines this issue in a new working…
…school (and its admissions exclusivity) may have had a heavy influence on the data. As noted in a Slate article by the economist Joel Waldfogel (whose “Deadweight Loss of Christmas”…
Who better than an economist to help with your shopping list?
…gifts at significantly less than they cost. (We once wrote a column that touched on deadweight loss, and here’s a seminal paper on the topic, by Joel Waldfogel.) On the…
…Joel Waldfogel, called “Pop Internationalism: Has a Half Century of World Music Trade Displaced Local Culture?” (abstract here; pdf here). There is a lot of great detail and data in…
…self”); Justin Wolfers (who has written before on Christmas efficiency); and Joel Waldfogel (here’s his famous “Deadweight Loss of Christmas” paper; he’s also the author of Scroogenomics). Wolfers tries to…
Christmas and economists go together like — well, like drinking and walking. Joel Waldfogel, the economist who is famous for highlighting the deadweight loss of gift-giving, has a new book…
…fun and easy way to engage students in economics. To promote cutting-edge research on the economics of music, a group of economists, including Alan Krueger, Joel Waldfogel and Julie Mortimer,…
…however, reveal no significant effects on the quantity or quality of recorded music (Oberholzer-Gee and Strumpf 2009; Waldfogel 2013), which suggests that the importance of copyright protection may be overstated….
…theoretical possibility. Joel Waldfogel and I crunched some numbers on bail setting and bond fees in Connecticut state court and found just this effect. A Market Test for Race Discrimination…
Several years ago, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Joel Waldfogel and Matthew W. White, published a fascinating empirical article about the prisoner’s dilemma game embedded in the short-lived U.S. game show “Friend or…
