The “beauty premium” is real, for everyone from babies to NFL quarterbacks.
Could a lack of sleep help explain why some people get much sicker than others?
People who sleep better earn more money. Now all we have to do is teach everyone to sleep better.
Could a lack of sleep help explain why some people get much sicker than others?
People who sleep better earn more money. Now all we have to do is teach everyone to sleep better.
Season 6, Episode 16 On this week’s episode of Freakonomics Radio: poor sleep can impair our cognitive function; sleep loss has been linked to adverse physical outcomes like weight gain and, increasingly, more serious maladies; and the Centers for Disease Control recently declared insufficient sleep a “public-health epidemic.” So are we treating the problem as seriously as we ought to . . .
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