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…don’t earn salaries. So only the most talented, the most popular wrestlers seen on TV are able to gamble on baseball. That’s what has been so shocking.” (HT: Daniel Lippman)[%comments]…
…don’t earn salaries. So only the most talented, the most popular wrestlers seen on TV are able to gamble on baseball. That’s what has been so shocking.” (HT: Daniel Lippman)[%comments]…
…Despite this, psychologist Daniel Gilbert (author of Stumbling on Happiness), thinks potential parents still need to consider their options carefully. “So you have to think about which kind of happiness…
…the region’s cities. “Juba, as an example, is a slum city. So our plan is to create a nuclear city outside Juba,” says Daniel Wani, the Undersecretary for Housing and…
…produces only 191 horsepower (but gets 41/36 mpg). Why is this troubling? Nicholas Lutsey and Daniel Sperling have written on historical trends in energy efficiency, vehicle size, pickup and fuel…
…ethics of playing God with the climate. Meanwhile, Slate has published a special issue on the topic, addressing the history of geoengineering, the politics and policy implications. (HT: Daniel Lippman)…
…things, like how terrible they were going to feel if they screwed up on this chance of a lifetime). Daniel Pink has run with the results of this experiment and…
…the world are themselves so susceptible to bias within the ranks of their practitioners. Addendum: here’s a link to Daniel Klein‘s ongoing survey about policy views within academia (HT: JBriggerman)…
…Ewout asked: Who was the first to say these famous words: “Nothing is certain except for death and taxes.” Some sources mention Ben Franklin, others say Mark Twain or Daniel…
Photo: Cliff In celebration of its 100-year anniversary, the American Economic Review asked six “eminent economists” (Kenneth J. Arrow, B. Douglas Bernheim, Martin S. Feldstein, Daniel L. McFadden, James M….
…whether you’re smiling. The technology was first developed to help autistic individuals with expression recognition. Daniel McDuff, the researcher in charge, is collecting data for this project. If you have…
…debates: The highlights: * Annamaria Lusardi, Daniel Schneider and Peter Tufano on Household Financial Fragility * Eric Swanson on Operation Twist: Quantitative Easing in the 1960s * Greg Mankiw and…
…and Daniel Reeves — and turned it into something real that’s fast, fun, pretty, and easy to use. Read more here.) Why do we need or want combinatorial markets? Simply…
…are Barb Mellers and Don Moore, with an advisory board that includes Daniel Kahneman, Robert Jervis, Scott Armstrong, Michael Mauboussin, Carl Spetzler and Justin Wolfers. It involves a multi-disciplinary effort…
…what the various Brookings economists are up to. This morning’s edition (written by Daniel Moskowitz) was priceless: Good enough I thought worth sharing with the wider world. (Hint: Check the…
Photo: iStockphoto In the Wall Street Journal, energy guru Daniel Yergin writes of the massive promise of shale gas. It’s the subject of the current cover story of TIME: “This…
According to a new working paper (abstract; PDF) by Daniel M. Hungerman, an economist at Notre Dame who studies religion, the answer is yes. At least in his Canadian data…
…life satisfaction concept and a much larger sample, the differences are now recognised as vast, as shown in the chapter here by Ed Diener, Daniel Kahneman, and colleagues. As I…
…order to add things, I needed to sign up for Facebook. What to do?? My wife’s response, “Join the 21st century, Daniel.” Being an obedient husband, I did so and…
…other being Daniel Tarullo. Both are needed there. If Raskin, formerly a pro-consumer state bank regulator in Maryland, were to leave, the Republicans would block anyone to the left of…
…the elapsed time in the first three steps would be less if she did everything and I watched. What she really meant was, “Daniel, your marginal productivity is very low!…
…Expert Political Judgment; his co-PIs are Barb Mellers and Don Moore, with an advisory board that includes Daniel Kahneman, Robert Jervis, Scott Armstrong, Michael Mauboussin, Carl Spetzler and Justin Wolfers….
…of it attributed to Daniel Patrick Moynihan, but it would be fun to know if he’s the origin, or if he quoted someone else.” This is often attributed to Moynihan….
…Daniel Greenwald asked: “If a person is not a liberal when he is twenty, he has no heart; if he is not a conservative when he is forty, he has…
…research team includes Barb Mellers and Don Moore, with an advisory board of Daniel Kahneman, Robert Jervis, Scott Armstrong, Michael Mauboussin, Carl Spetzler and Justin Wolfers. The criteria for selection…
…“Substitution and Stigma: Evidence on Religious Competition from the Catholic Sex-Abuse Scandal,” by Notre Dame economist Daniel Hungerman, looks at whether other religious faiths gained from the Catholic Church sex…
If you are in the least bit an airplane junkie, you should follow the advice of Jason Kottke (no relation to Daniel, or Leo, fwiw) and search for “planes overhead”…
Photo: aforero That’s the claim of a new paper by D. Mark Anderson and Daniel I. Rees, put out by the IZA, titled “Medical Marijuana Laws, Traffic Fatalities, and Alcohol…
…nice you are. Jeremy Bernerth, Daniel Whitman, Shannon Taylor and H. Jack Walker found that while there is a positive relationship between “conscientiousness and FICO scores, there is a negative…
(Photo: HA! Designs – Artbyheather) My latest Bloomberg View column with Betsey is all about the Tea Party. Well, actually, it’s really about some superb research about the Tea Party, by Andreas Madestam, Daniel Shoag, Stan Veuger and David Yanagizawa-Drott. …
(Photo: Daniel Lobo) The American Medical Association resolved this week that “there is no scientific justification for special labeling of bioengineered foods.” The association has long-held that nothing about the…