…minimum time commitment would be several hours in passing training exercises, grappling with forecasting problems, and updating your forecasting response to new evidence throughout the year). The primary motivation for…
…of death during exercise. The findings were published this month in the American Heart Association journal Circulation. You can read the abstract here. What really caught my eye though was…
…which allows songwriters and musicians to exercise their “termination rights” and take back from the record labels many thousands of songs they licensed 35 years ago. So, for example, Boston…
…is that claim? This made the exercise incredibly difficult, as I have enough knowledge to give an extreme answer – true or false – but not enough to give a…
…fats but also reduce exercise (as this study from the Journal of Political Economy suggests). Both substitutions make consumers worse off as they deviate from their preferred consumption bundle and…
…can become a penny waiting for change. Thus Dean misread the Iowa landscape. While voters were focusing in on one overwhelming question — which candidate had the best chance to…
…estimates of the price elasticity and lives saved in each state. We repeat this exercise for other injury-fatality rates, and for nine categories of crime. For each outcome, the estimated…
…Dave, an economist at Bentley University, has found evidence on exercise and eating habits during economic downturns that could conflict with Ruhm’s finding. Obesity plainly has many contributing factors and…
…wants to believe) that behavioral economics has a lot to teach us about real-world investing behavior. The money quote: “What you’re seeing is a gigantic exercise in behavioral finance,” says…
…a true global exercise in open innovation. And in the end, it was a self-educated English watchmaker, John Harrison, who found a down-to-earth solution. His invention, a marine chronometer, ultimately…
…but please also share what you learn in the comments. I found it a fun and somewhat challenging research exercise. And as you’ll see, it’s not easy reading 1940 handwriting!…
…The study didn’t specifically examine diet, exercise, or sleep habits, but Hoehner suggests they may be to blame. “It could just be a function of having less discretionary time to…
The Associated Press wants prostitutes to stay away from its D.C. bureau. Are CEOs with military experience more honest? The relationship between reading and being skinny. Can exercise be bad…
…in classifying activities: Was it work or was it leisure (exercise), to pick two of the major aggregates that I use in my research? Was it an investment of time…
…plausible to argue that the physician and patient could exercise discretion. The authors further conclude that “the implication of these findings is that expanding health insurance, as recent federal reform…
…to 2016. What this exercise does show, though, is that it is possible to construct a team that is almost as productive – in terms of WP48 – as the…
…button doesn’t mean that it is considerate for you to do so. (You also have a first amendment right to call me names, but that doesn’t make your exercise of…
…society? Baggage charges are part of a larger change: Air travel, even economy class, was once a joy; now it’s an exercise in stoicism. Bring back the Civil Aeronautics Board!…
…least some action is noteworthy. People in the U.S. have used websites where they commit money to a cause if they fail to achieve their exercise or other goals for…
…to learn what kind of feedback works best with cardiac patients: FINKELSTEIN: So these are patients who have just had their first heart attack and there’s a lot of question…
…inattentive monitors due to their status as foreign or “busy.” When directors resign, they are often not replaced, and new auditors are rarely engaged. Cartel managers exercise their stock options…
…innocent, everyday lifestyle choices; some choices, such as those regarding diet and exercise, may affect cancer incidence as well as rates of diabetes and heart disease. And: Finally, although less…
…all for different demographics groups during the 2000-2007 period and over the entirety of the 2000s. Using our estimates from this exercise, we calculate that roughly 40 percent of the…
…doesn’t strike me that Weiner’s continuing to run is really about sunk cost. Modern politics is so often an exercise in ego, hubris, and narcissism — and if I were…
…where the angry came out. A certain small number of very vocal men (and it was always men) resented that we were not letting them try to exercise additional control…
…now say that “Bing It On” is meant to be a “lightweight way to challenge people’s assumptions about which search engine actually provides the best results.” To be sure, companies…
…the condemnation resolution, the Division of Highways began clearing the property. The apparently sensible response to this arbitrary exercise of authority has been the rise of public power and participation,…
We often look to other countries for smart policies on education, healthcare, infrastructure, etc. But can a smart policy be simply transplanted into a country as culturally unusual (and as…
