Hip-Hop Economists
If you do a search for the words “game theory” on amazon.com , you find books by eminent economists like Roger Myerson, Fudenberg and Tirole, and our recent critic Ariel…
If you do a search for the words “game theory” on amazon.com , you find books by eminent economists like Roger Myerson, Fudenberg and Tirole, and our recent critic Ariel…
…Read it. Live it.” I haven’t been following Ted Nugent’s career lately, but a google search reveal that he has moved on from Rock ‘n’ Roll to writing. His latest…
We’re not sure what that creature cavorting on the sidelines is — but it doesn’t come cheap. Zachary Crockett gets the ballpark figures on everyone’s favorite ballpark figures….
…the doubters and blogs about what Tweeting means to him: instant feedback on lectures, an essential tool for researching blog posts, and an efficient alternative to a Google search. [%comments]…
This e-mail reprinted below, which is circulating incredibly widely, may represent a new low in economic thinking. It declares September 1st “No Gas Day.” I got three copies today. Still,…
…bad-looking workers. A theory of job search suggests two opposite-signed mechanisms that affect these wage differentials. It suggests greater absolute effects among job-movers, which is verified using the longitudinal component…
…other older adults. 1% of the foregone market work hours are allocated to job search. Though the authors didn’t compute standard errors for comparisons of men and women (so they…
Once considered noble and heroic, pigeons are now viewed as an urban nuisance — one that costs cities millions of dollars a year. Zachary Crockett tosses some crumbs….
…Tail. Here is Shenk’s new blog, in which he describes his book, to be called The Genius In All of Us: Nature, Nurture and the New Science of Talent and…
…small schools with roughly 100 students per grade. We use assignment lotteries embedded in New York City’s high school match to estimate the effects of attendance at a new small…
…understatement. (Full disclosure: David Romer and I are the co-editors.) While a close reading of technical research papers is my idea of a good time, I’m told not everyone is…
…This significantly changed outcomes — disabled participants received much lower offers: “Importantly, the lower offers received by disabled testers after signaling a willingness to search are not statistically different from…
For lots of things, price is an indicator of quality. But what about in health care? Bapu Jena gets some clues from Steve Levitt’s wine tasting experiment, and looks at…
…the liabilities stay within the same holding company. Using new data on all life and annuity reinsurance agreements for licensed companies in the U.S., we map out the financial plumbing…
The mother of all deadlines fast approaches: our new book, SuperFreakonomics, is due to be published on October 20. In the meantime, how about a little contest? Think of it…
Sunday’s?New York Times reported on attempts by the Texas Board of Education to rewrite the high school curriculum in accordance with its conservative values.? While there’s always an element of…
…nerd via obsessive commitment to customer service for the craigslist community. In 1995, he started craigslist, which serves as a non-commercial community service with classifieds and discussion forums. Craigslist focuses…
This is a guest post by Jeff Mosenkis, a freelance producer with Freakonomics Radio who holds a Ph.D. in psychology and comparative human development. Nazis, Sunken Ships, And a 60…
Gautam Naik provides an interesting and cleverly written piece on the search for a biological basis of violent behavior. If you want to have fodder for controversial cocktail conversation, take…
Promising drugs keep failing in trials. Allegations of fraud have cast a shadow over the field. An expert explains why Alzheimer’s treatments have been so hard to find — and…
…will turn up a wide variety of comments); this Newsday review, by Scott McLemee, which chided the book’s “style of evasive lucidity”; this review in Time magazine, which said that…
Once a luxury good, the soft fiber is now everywhere — which has led to a goat boom in Mongolia. Zachary Crockett tugs at the thread….
…percent lower reservation wage than their white counterparts at a comparable job that demands a comparable skill level. Fryer and his colleagues control for skill level by measuring the job…
…a bit of what he learned from commenters on this blog (including early adopters of the diet), so I’m sure he’s appreciative. You’re more than welcome to comment further here…
…was searching for early human remains on Java and decided to enlist the help of the locals in his search by offering them “ten cents for every piece of hominid…
…harvests data on every person on the planet not living in a cave, why doesn’t the U.S. government mine the data — after all, it has the most computing resources…
…team in the American League. But I feel like I am still misunderstood when it comes to what I have been trying to say about Billy Beane. So I keep…
How does America’s cutest sales force get billions of Thin Mints, Samoas, and Tagalongs into our hands every year? Zachary Crockett finds out in the second episode of our newest…
Is the “cropland bubble” bursting? New search engine uses ranking algorithm to reduce spam. (Earlier) Cardiac arrest fatalities may provide a new kidney source. (Earlier) Students gather data by sniffing…
…there a little Vasco de Gama wanting to plant his flag on a new antique store or dive bar? Maybe the need to strike out and conquer new worlds has…
