…association and create a “paper trail” for future scandal investigations. The iPads were reportedly chosen “because of [their] large touch-screen keys that can be easily prodded by the giant wrestlers.”?[%comments]…
Lessons from Tom Petty’s rise and another rocker’s fall: A conversation with Warren Zanes, former member of the Del Fuegos and the author of Petty: The Biography ….
…the mountains (where, as lore held it, racecar drivers got their training by running moonshine down the mountain roads) and also in Winston-Salem (where the Friday-night roar of cars from…
…him to lie. I wrote back to Ari: Of course it may be that no one has a stronger incentive to make sure a kid gets all his training than…
…chance of having a baby in a year: “After 12 cycles, the pregnancy rate was around 75 percent for women under 30, 62 percent for women 31-35, and 54% for…
The pandemic may be winding down, but that doesn’t mean we’ll return to full-time commuting and packed office buildings. The greatest accidental experiment in the history of labor has lessons…
…Yuengling to run America’s oldest brewery. He turned the company around (Photo courtesy of Yuengling Brewery) Dick Yuengling gives us a tour of the brewery. The brew kettle is used…
…motivated. Here is one example: “Guy, the main reason that you learned French this time was because you wanted to learn it this time.” Understanding the role of motivation in…
Paying workers as little as possible seems smart — unless you can make more money by paying them more.
A recent post on Consumerist.com asked readers to comment on a plan to install rear-facing seats on airplanes. The options for commenting were basically: a) I don’t like it b)…
…first quarter. Rather than going to the training room, Payton gutted it out on the sideline and kept calling plays while trainers tended to his knee. By halftime though, with…
…year of required training), this has raised the equilibrium wage of barbers — and the equilibrium price of a haircut. Licensing of medical doctors, where the consumer lacks information on…
…became commonplace: one drought-ridden country declares war on its neighbor after the neighbor “steals” its rainfall. In SuperFreakonomics, we write about some geoengineering schemes that scientists are considering to cool…
(Photo: itdp) Aaron Pilkington, an officer trainee at Air Force Officer Training School in Montgomery, Ala., writes to say: I was driving down the road the other day with a…
The controversial theory linking Roe v. Wade to a massive crime drop is back in the spotlight as several states introduce abortion restrictions. Steve Levitt and John Donohue discuss their…
…have adopted unorthodox business models. Smile Train, which performs free cleft-repair surgery for poor children around the world, started training local doctors rather than flying in U.S. surgeons; this has…
…of computers would be excluded from the contest because it is likely driven by the explosion in computing power.) I have in mind one activity that has seen the most…
They — along with a great many other high-achieving women — were all once Girl Scouts. So was Sylvia Acevedo. Raised in a poor, immigrant family, she was told that…
…spearheaded an ambitious project to bring together parallel data on students from Princeton, Chicago, MIT, Stanford, and Harvard graduate programs in economics with the hopes that we could better understand…
…to be checked only to Newark. However, given the baggage fees, this restriction does little harm. The trick also will not improve a round-trip fare: If you don’t fly an…
…familiar areas of London.” Woollett and Maguire hypothesize that “their poorer performance may reflect expert inflexibility and an inability to inhibit access to existing (and now competing) memory representations.” [%comments]…
…order to satisfy our perverse notions of entertainment and safety. That said, we’ve done what we’ve done. Perhaps the best compromise solution is therefore to seek a middle ground between…
…criteria: 1. The organization must be “at ground level” — i.e. supplying everyday needs for an impoverished community. 2. It must not be “top heavy” with administration costs, with the…
According to a decades-long research project, the U.S. is not only the most individualistic country on earth; we’re also high on indulgence, short-term thinking, and masculinity (but low on “uncertainty…
…or 2) compensate soldiers well enough that they are willing to enlist. The idea that a draft presents a reasonable solution is completely backwards. First, it puts the “wrong” people…
My friend Joshua Gans is one of Australia’s best young economists, and he is also a parent. And as passionate as Joshua is about economics, he’s just as passionate about…
…and Extension” is based on 140 surveys that he and his co-authors: …collected during three lunch shifts (11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.) at a [large national chain] restaurant located in…
Corporate Social Responsibility programs can attract better job applicants who’ll work for less money. But they also encourage employees to misbehave. Don’t laugh — you too probably engage in “moral…
…the Sheraton Dongguan Hotel, which gives guests a card listing every destination they will ever need: -Guangdong International Exhibition Center -Museum of Opium War -Tai Ping Jetty -Wal-Mart … Without…
