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…of Social Preferences,” I conduct a field experiment that uses an anonymous n-player PD game. The results on age and cooperation were quite similar and have been replicated in more…
Chronic fatigue syndrome looks remarkably similar to Long Covid, but has been ignored by the medical community. Could patients finally get some answers to their debilitating illness?…
No. But now is a good time to sort out the potential from the hype. Whether you’re bullish, bearish, or just confused, we’re here to explain what the blockchain can…
Why does listening to No Stupid Questions feel like you’re hanging out with your best friends? Why did the whole world take it personally when Princess Diana died? And how…
…of Social Preferences,” I conduct a field experiment that uses an anonymous n-player PD game. The results on age and cooperation were quite similar and have been replicated in more…
Humans have a built-in “negativity bias,” which means we give bad news much more power than good. Would the Covid-19 crisis be an opportune time to reverse this tendency?
…rating them on their energy use compared with that of neighbors in 100 homes of similar size that used the same heating fuel. The customers were also compared with the…
What happens when the most disturbing ideas are also the best?
Even a brutal natural disaster doesn’t diminish our appetite for procreating. This surely means we’re heading toward massive overpopulation, right? Probably not.
To you, it’s just a ride-sharing app that gets you where you’re going. But to an economist, Uber is a massive repository of moment-by-moment data that is helping answer some…
Critics — including President Obama — say short-term, high-interest loans are predatory, trapping borrowers in a cycle of debt. But some economists see them as a useful financial instrument for…
What if the thing we call “talent” is grotesquely overrated? And what if deliberate practice is the secret to excellence? Those are the claims of the research psychologist Anders Ericsson,…
Humans are hardwired to focus on the left digit in numbers. It’s why products are priced at $3.99 instead of $4.00. But does this left-digit bias also affect medical decisions?…
The pizza-and-gaming emporium prides itself on affordability, which means its arcade games are really cheap to play. Does that lead to kids hogging the best games — and parents starting…
…Census PUMS Files: Evidence and Implications Trent Alexander, Michael Davern and Betsey Stevenson The two estimates are pretty similar for those younger than 65. But then things go haywire, with…
…a call for loan applicants in the most similar nearby community that does not have a similar microfinance program already present. Using the same criteria as our program uses to…
Born in Morocco and raised mostly by a single mother, Moncef Slaoui is now one of the world’s most influential scientists. As the head of Operation Warp Speed — the…
…would be similar.) 3) All of the decline in crime from 1985-1997 experienced by high abortion states relative to low abortion states is concentrated among the age groups born after…
It’s an acutely haphazard way of paying workers, and yet it keeps expanding. We dig into the data to find out why.
Humans have a built-in “negativity bias,” which means we give bad news much more power than good. Would the Covid-19 crisis be an opportune time to reverse this tendency?
A fine reading of most policies for “business interruption” reveals that viral outbreaks aren’t covered. Some legislators are demanding that insurance firms pay up anyway. Is it time to rethink…
…super-low cost “Institutional Class” index funds with a net expense ratio of just 7 basis points. But the bad news is that Yale’s menu still includes a similar stock fund…
…that. This is just economists giving a jargon name to love. So you want someone who’s actually remarkably similar to you or has similar passions that you do. So it…
…means that any team in the NBA would be more than happy to employ LeBron at his current wage. A similar story can be told by each of the players…
…about Ethiopia. In 400AD, Ethiopia looked very similar to states in the Mediterranean basin, but then it experienced very different shocks and while these other societies changed, Ethiopia got stuck….
…since that has proven to be such a failure in similar conditions abroad. The American government, working with the states, must maintain ownership over the trackage. But how about operations?…
…book, The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good, will spawn a similar conversation. In it, Frank makes a rather bold prediction: within the next century, Charles Darwin, the…
…U.S. education system: the achievement gap between non-minority and minority students. Less than than one-fifth of African-Americans, and less than one-eighth of Latinos between 25 and 29 years-old have a…
…MBS securities by looking at price changes between origination and April, 2009. Both AAA- and non-AAA rated tranches sold by larger issuers in the boom perform worse than similar tranches…
…is a uniqueness requirement: Only one skater can skate under a given name. The second instantiates the idea of priority: Where two names are identical or excessively similar, the skater…
