Incentivized Altruism
…new policy “provides an incentive for individuals to agree to help each other.” The policy will be widely publicized and will take effect in January 2011. (HT: Marginal Revolution) [%comments]…
…new policy “provides an incentive for individuals to agree to help each other.” The policy will be widely publicized and will take effect in January 2011. (HT: Marginal Revolution) [%comments]…
…and creates perverse incentives to earn less and save little,” he writes. “The problem with food stamps isn’t that we are giving too much to the poor.” (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
…big countries are, here’s another map, in which Japan gobbles up our entire midsection and New England, while China has to settle for the West Coast. (Hat tip: Marginal Revolution)…
…to put an advertisement, as this is what guys are eager to look at and girls are eager to expose,” Hidenori Atsumi, the agency’s CEO, told ITN. (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
A Florida state task force on education has just released a recommendation to adjust tuition, by major. “Tuition would be lower for students pursuing degrees most needed for Florida’s job…
…player to wear a portable electrode as she practiced her serve? She would, after all, just be hastening the same changes that come with ordinary practice.” (HT: Marginal Revolution) [%comments]…
…show no effect. We also test whether the reform reduced?school segregation in Wales, and find no systematic significant impact on either sorting by?ability or by socioeconomic status.” (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
…of Higher Education. The researchers profiled believe that the best learning comes from single-minded attention: one professor even forbids his students from taking notes in class. (HT: Marginal Revolution) [%comments]…
The Asian Sex Gazette, an online (and perhaps offline) publication whose content is a bit risque for this PG-rated blog (I found the link over at the excellent Marginal Revolution…
…paywall bolstered their support, while explanations emphasizing financial stability did not. The authors conclude that “content providers could benefit from more thorough attempts to justify price structures.” (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
…person and certainly not with my shirt off, something he could not possibly be informed about. The Marginal Revolution guys are a little more charitable. A stong defender is Karl…
…Marginal Revolution here (with others here and Tyler Cowen‘s favorites here). Krugman, who graciously agreed to judge our Freako-versus-MR caption-that-photo contest, has spoken: Actually, I think it’s a tie —…
…a better movie.) New research indicates that macaque monkeys display the same behavior, averting their glances and acting frightened when confronted with too close-to-real monkey images. (HT: Marginal Revolution) [%comments]…
…be more left-wing than their actual beliefs on a substantive issue might suggest.” Rockey also found that men consistently perceive themselves as being more right-wing than women. (HT: Marginal Revolution)[%comments]…
…American Association of Wine Economists conducted double-blind taste tests of five unlabeled blended meat products, including dog food. Subjects were unable to identify the dog food. (HT: Marginal Revolution) [%comments]…
…the emergence of so-called wellbeing indexes as a positive development; and he suggests replacing our focus on GDP with an emphasis on the development of human capital. (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
…immense rewards that were seen to accrue from innovative marketing, and the fact that the ploys available for use in the naming of drugs are so restricted.” (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
…but after chatting to her decided he could not do it,” writes Townsend. “The judge in Wright’s trial described him as a ‘hitman who lost his nerve’.” (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
Regular readers of this blog know how much we admire Tyler Cowen, especially for the Marginal Revolution blog he keeps with fellow George Mason University economics professor Alex Tabarrok. You…
…the body of academic research about when tiny infants actually start to listen.” It may be the perfect solution for parents still mourning?Baby Einstein‘s fall from grace. (HT: Marginal Revolution)[%comments]…
…what qualifies as news in Russia? Or is this what the Russians think Americans like to read about? If it’s the latter, it worked on me. Forget about Marginal Revolution;…
…New York, you have friends and you’re hanging out and it’s like, ‘Did you see that new exhibit at MoMA?’ ‘Do you know what a Cronut is?’” (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
…Marginal Revolution about what he wanted for Christmas, put it this way: “The economist in me says the best gift is cash. The rest of me rebels. … [W]e want…
…wrong in thinking this is a big, big story? FWIW, we did another podcast about how hard it is to predict earthquakes. (HT: inter alia, Steven Merahn and Marginal Revolution)…
…podium at all. Medvec points to a 1996 Nike ad which sums up the disappointment many silver medalists feel: “You don’t win silver – you lose gold.” (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
…a one-off, short-term adaptation that is cost-effective, easy to monitor and does not create additional stigma,” said Alan Whiteside, one of the researchers calling for the ban. (HT: Marginal Revolution)[%comments]…
Are prediction markets efficient? Robert Frank back on his feet after a heart attack. (Earlier) Hackers use “flirt” program to fool would-be online daters. (HT: Marginal Revolution) Malawian innovator builds…
…rate. Together, the findings supported the notion that the discovery of penicillin decreased the cost of syphilis and thereby played an important role in shaping modern sexuality. (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
…“the whole country had the racial attitudes of the most tolerant areas.” Stephens-Davidowitz concludes that racism gave John McCain “the equivalent of a home state advantage country-wide.” (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
…marmalade. So even if jam studies of the future prove inconclusive, it still seems wise to streamline choices whose complexity might otherwise hamper a good outcome. (Hat tip: Marginal Revolution)…