New research shows that obesity has been on the rise for longer than you think.
The Freakonomics documentary gets a distributor.
A change in U.S. law has killed 12,545 people, and nobody seems to have noticed.
Are imports from low-wage countries driving technology advancements in the U.S.?
Economist George Johnson passed away this week, at age 70. He and his work are remembered fondly.
In this world there nothing is certain but death and misquotation. Fred Shapiro is here to clean things up.
A new program giving Federal workers an incentive to improve efficiency pays dividends.
New research indicates that exposure to green products and the purchase of green products have vastly different effects on behavior.
In recent years, the randomized program evaluation has become the gold standard for evaluating development programs – and the bread and butter of many development economists. The evaluations often uncover valuable new information, but are controversial, and can also be prohibitively expensive to implement for small NGO’s.
It’s Passover. That means eight days of eating matzoh, which gets me thinking about products that are complements with or substitutes for matzoh.
Peter Robinson interviews Gary Becker about healthcare reform, the future of capitalism, and what this November’s elections will bring.
A new working paper by Jennifer Hunt examines the exodus of women from the science and engineering fields, and upends some popularly accepted wisdom.
Kal Raustiala, a Professor at UCLA Law School and the UCLA International Institute, and Chris Sprigman, a Professor at the University of Virginia Law School, are counterfeiting and intellectual property experts. They have been guest-blogging for us about copyright issues; this week they write about an alternative method of enforcing intellectual property rights.
Alright, I’ll admit it: when I first sat down with Steve Levitt in the econ department at the University of Chicago back in 2003, and asked him to explain how economists use regression analyses to measure the impact of individual variables within a complex scenario, I was thinking, “Man, this is the kind of material that would really light up the silver screen.”