That Special Joie de Vivre
…to be highest in Italy, where men have nearly 80 more minutes of leisure time a day than women due to less time spent on housework. (HT: Marginal Revolution) [%comments]…
…to be highest in Italy, where men have nearly 80 more minutes of leisure time a day than women due to less time spent on housework. (HT: Marginal Revolution) [%comments]…
…hits. My wife just laughs. Tyler Cowen of Marginal Revolution shares my fears. Unlike me, he is actually doing something to prepare. He has a post here with some updates,…
…from it: I was pleased to see that Levitt has been replaced as a New York Times columnist by economist-aesthete Tyler Cowen of Marginal Revolution. Sorry, but believe it or…
…rules that are unpopular, constantly disputed, and set by someone else. Judging from a pair of very interesting posts on Marginal Revolution about taxation (including this one, about who pays…
…Aid Watch, Chris Blattman, NYT’s Economix, Marginal Revolution, and Paul Krugman. Using stats from Research Papers in Economics, it found spikes after blogs cover a paper. For us, they found…
…sliver of the deficits.” Courtesy of Matt Yglesias, here’s a simple summary chart: But Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution remains unimpressed, arguing that: The reason why the hundreds of billions…
…over as editor, McAfee posted this on the journal’s web page (hat tip to Marginal Revolution, who blogged about it): Editor’s Announcement: No Revisions Option Journal time to publication lags…
…happy women are relative to men. Elsewhere on the Internet, the paper has drawn the ire of a number of bloggers. Stevenson and Wolfers have fired back on Marginal Revolution,…
…question that economists do tend to pose. It also reminded me of a recent Marginal Revolution blog post that mentioned John Broome‘s new book, Climate Matters: Ethics in a Warming…
…WSJ, David Wessel thinks Krueger’s attractive and good on TV. At Marginal Revolution, Tyler Cowen puts together a list of his previous Krueger-related posts. And over at his blog, Greg…
…godsend: it would give them rights to a man’s financial and physical support, legitimacy for their children, and rights to state benefits,” Humphrey told the Guardian. (HT: Marginal Revolution) [%comments]…
…to think this is a real test of witchcraft. The tribal judges, who are pawns of the Mwami, are bribed to hand out false verdicts,” he says. (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
…had positive impacts on nutrition, education, land, and livestock — and haven’t increased alcohol consumption. The charity is also No. 2 on Givewell’s list of recommended charities. (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
…and the director of the school’s Center for Educational Testing Evaluation. “It’s important that the research community improve perhaps as quickly as the cheating community is improving.” (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
…of full disclosure, it should be noted that Gruber served as an Obama advisor during the 2008 campaign and may not be the most unbiased of observers. (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
…(And yes, signing one’s enemy up for a porn-magazine subscription really does get his attention.) Readers, any thoughts? What are the limits to an unbranding strategy? (HT: Marginal Revolution) [%comments]…
…about younger people, who are seen as having a higher status in our society.” Younger people, in contrast, preferred to read positive stories about other young’uns. (HT: Marginal Revolution) [%comments]…
…the always-excellent Marginal Revolution; thank you, gentlemen. Levitt and I subsequently spent some time with Roberts in California, while on our recent book tour — so there’s yet another reason…
…results indicate that religious practices can affect labor supply choices in ways that have negative implications for economic performance, but that nevertheless increase subjective well-being among followers. (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
Via Marginal Revolution: In his quest to explain the male-female wage gap in business, academia, and other fields, the economist M. Daniele Paserman studied the role that gender plays in…
Tyler Cowen is giving away 15 copies of his new book, with a clever twist: you have to write in to Tyler on his Marginal Revolution blog and explain why…
Over at Marginal Revolution, Tyler Cowen draws an intriguing parallel between accusations made by disgraced NBA ex-referee Tim Donaghy, and models of collusion. While David Stern has denied explicit collusion…
…to bet on their own behavior end up losing their bets.” Does the problem lie with the commitment device? Are there more effective devices than money? (HT: Marginal Revolution) [%comments]…
An amazing website that the guys at Marginal Revolution blogged about. It is called www.scipionus.com. It is a map-based wiki where regular people can insert information geographically about the effects…
Courtesy of Marginal Revolution, take a look at this dancer. Is she spinning clockwise or counter-clockwise? For me there is no question: the answer is clockwise. For my wife, the…
…saw a sled. Amazingly, she had completed only 220 runs before qualifying. (A typical US skeleton racer makes upwards of 2,000 runs before appearing in the Olympics.) (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
…see Tyler Cowen‘s post at Marginal Revolution.) Early in my graduate career, I wanted to be an economic theorist. My advisor at the time told me I should give a…
…for the full research paper; a companion post at the Google blog; a recent write-up in the Times. Other commentary: Marginal Revolution, Andrew Gelman, Zubin Jelveh at Portfolio, Justin Lahart…
…at Marginal Revolution: Using a variety of techniques and data we estimate that a 1% increase in the household gun ownership rate leads to a .5 to .9% increase in…
…to help. I thought it was a pretty good column. But I see now where it could have been better. Alex Tabarrok, writing on Marginal Revolution, addresses the law of…