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Coffee in Berlin

The local coffee shop and bakery near my apartment in Berlin charges €1 for an excellent cup of coffee. The similar shop near my office, but on a main tourist…




Are Voters Just Rooting for Clothes?

…so many other people quite happy with our current president? Perhaps the answer is similar to a story frequently told about sports fans. Back in the early 1990s, a friend…




My Target-Date Fund Is Bigger Than Yours

…104.4%. Our findings demonstrate that TDFs with similar target dates can follow significantly different investment strategies. If regulators assumed that TDFs with the same target date provide investors with similar




Ball Hogs and Long Meetings

Listen to an NBA coach during a game and you will often hear him scream something like the following: “You have to share the ball.” “Start looking for your teammates.”…



Learning From the Last Great Mortgage Mess

…Price Fishback and Ken Snowden For the past four years, the U.S. has faced a housing crisis that shows no signs of ending. The situation was similar in June 1933…





Why Do Black Men Live Longer in Prison?

…France, and Russia that show similar mortality results for a variety of populations, where the mortality rate is lower in prison than out. Also, our earlier study from 2008 found…





Not as Irrational as We Think?

…those previous flips influence the next one.” A similar effect is even seen in “an optimal, fully rational computer learner given similar incorrect beliefs about the world.” (HT: Eric M….




Your Hulu Questions, Answered

…box or something similar? That to me seems to be the final barrier to achieving massive growth that could make cable and satellite companies a thing of the past. —…




Let's Avoid Other New Deal Policy Blunders

…to follow in Roosevelt‘s footsteps. Roosevelt negotiated a series of Reciprocal Trade Agreements with key trading partners that helped stimulate a world-wide recovery. Moves to sign similar agreements with Latin…





Quotes Uncovered: Twain or Not Twain

…recent researches. Richard asked: Mark Twain is probably the most quoted (and misqouted) person in history. I have heard two variations of a similar statement attributed to him: ‘I am…



The "Identity Economists" Answer Your Questions

…Economics would also tell us to look for differences across groups. That is, some identifiable groups both save more and have better long-term health outcomes, despite being in similar economic…



Game Theory TV

…that you had covered a similar problem about a year ago. Instead of cheap gas, the problem was?to find true love. The solution to maximize your probability of success was…




Apparently, TV Really IS Dangerous

…Jesse Shapiro made a similar argument in a paper called “Does Television Rot Your Brain,” which Austan Goolsbee wrote about in Slate. But in two separate incidents in Brooklyn recently,…



The MythBusters Answer Your Questions

…started out trying to make a show that was educational and fun at the same time, we’d never have succeeded. We just put all the curiosity and irreverence and our…



When Winning Leads to Winning: A Response

…friend Lionel Page points me to a related study of his, which analyzes tennis. Lionel uses a similar approach to arrive at a different conclusion, but I think his results…



Frank Warren Spills His Secrets

…a personal epiphany. The postcard described a humiliating childhood experience that was very similar to one I’d had three decades earlier. I had been blocking the event out ever since;…



Matthew Kahn Answers Your Climatopolis Questions

…for smoking taxes if smokers underestimate the cancer probability. In a similar spirit, if the population in cities such as Moscow systematically underestimates the probability of heat waves in the…