Think Like a Freak: Our New Book Out on May 13
…and a planeload of food will not cure famine . . . How to find the root cause of a problem . . . Revisiting the abortion-crime link . ….
The online universe doesn’t have nearly as many rules, or rulemakers, as the real world. Discuss.
Most of us are are afraid to ask sensitive questions about money, sex, politics, etc. New research shows this fear is largely unfounded. Time for some interesting conversations!…
In one of the earliest Freakonomics Radio episodes, we asked a bunch of economists with young kids how they approached child-rearing. Now the kids are old enough to talk —…
Since doctors are human, they bring their own beliefs and preferences into the examining room. But they’ve also taken an oath to act in the best interest of all patients….
Steve and producer Morgan Levey look back at the first 100 episodes of the podcast, including surprising answers, spectacular explanations, and listeners who heard the show and changed their lives….
…and a planeload of food will not cure famine . . . How to find the root cause of a problem . . . Revisiting the abortion-crime link . ….
…(E.g. I used to think that abortion was okay when the fetus is three months old. But having a kid and seeing a sonogram changed that view.) Nevertheless, I’d argue…
…Unnatural Selection about the consequences of ultrasound machines and sex-selective abortion. Or consider this bizarre story from SuperFreakonomics: It used to be that when a baby presented itself awkwardly, there…
…abortion; and 2) the emphasis on birth parent rights. We did give some serious thought to adopting either a black child domestically, or adopting from Africa. It turns out that…
…just about any frontier zone). Female infanticide was also practiced at moments in Chinese and Indian history, though never on the scale of sex-selective abortion today. I don’t go so…
…and abortion, and economic outcomes. They don’t call economics the soft science for nothing. My response: 1. Thanks, Realtors, for continuing to publicize our book. 2. Does anyone besides me…
…published!” Sandy said. “No Iranian will beat us on our home turf!” This is reminiscent of how Planned Parenthood responds to abortion-clinic protestors: by soliciting donations based on how many…
…I think we will be seeing a lot of Steve Sailer on this site in the near future — this issue is even closer to his heart than legalized abortion….
(Brand X Pictures) Our latest Freakonomics podcast, “Misadventures in Baby-Making,” includes a discussion of how sex-selective abortion has led to 160 million missing females in Asia. Closer to home, however,…
…at least in an age and polity where contraception, abortion, and the chance to terminate one’s parental rights exist. Thus, despite the general common law rule in favor of maximizing…
…time has probably come to admit that neither of us were Ku Klux Klan members either, or sumo wrestlers or Realtors or abortion providers or schoolteachers or even pimps. And…
…of boy-to-girl births in Asian countries to a preference for sons, which manifests in selective abortion and, possibly, infanticide. … In a follow-up blog post, Levitt applauded Oster for bravery…
…the abortion-crime stuff) and Justin Wolfers (an economist at Wharton). In the paper, Donohue and Wolfers provide a devastating critique of the existing studies, including the ones cited by Rubin…
…your “Abortion Reduces Crime” study, I wondered whether the BB would demonstrate the inverse scenario. As you will note in this article from my local newspaper, it appears there is…
…in those places are out of whack. This is especially true now with the availability of ultrasound machines to aid in sex-selective abortion, but it was true long before that…
…visitors later, here we are. We’ve covered a lot of ground: Billy Beane, car seats, voting, the shangri la diet, abortion, poker, realtors, dog poop, and peak oil, just to…
…it be an explanation for What’s the Matter With Kansas?, i.e. that voters may ratify a political platform that goes against their interests because of abortion legislation, etc. -frankenduf A….
…and lobbying, health care, inequality and education. For conservatives, the key issues discussed are taxation, abortion, stem cell research, family values, defense, and (to a lesser extent) government administration.” Here’s…
…What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today’s Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable, by John Brockman. Pinker’s hypothesis: that “dangerous” questions (such as whether the legalization of abortion in the ’70s contributed…
We’ve written a few times about what we call reverse incentives: comedian and activist Dick Gregory‘s use of the N word; Planned Parenthood turning abortion protestors into a fund-raising scheme;…
…Vegas.” He even probes the effects of Prohibition’s on abortion and the doomed Equal Rights Amendment. Okrent is the author of several earlier books, the creator of Rotisserie League Baseball,…
…now a part of the clinic’s annual calendar. At the time, Levitt predicted that abortion clinics around the country would soon adopt the approach. It turns out, so has comedian…
…we should feel threatened by all Christians because a handful of Christian fundamentalists bomb U.S. abortion clinics, or by all right-wingers because some extreme right-wing militia members caused the Oklahoma…
…to get off the computer while looking down at their own Blackberrys. (N.B.: Pop-Eleches is the same scholar whose fascinating research on abortion in Romania we wrote about in Freakonomics.)…
…Mr. Levine said. The authors found that the show “led to more searches and tweets regarding birth control and abortion, and ultimately led to a 5.7 percent reduction in teen…