Blondes Have More…
…blonde advantage will not surprise anyone who has read about beauty premiums or John List‘s research showing that blonde women are even better at soliciting charitable donations. (HT: Daniel Lippman)[%comments]…
…blonde advantage will not surprise anyone who has read about beauty premiums or John List‘s research showing that blonde women are even better at soliciting charitable donations. (HT: Daniel Lippman)[%comments]…
…to black players who produce at similar rates?? – Daniel-san A. The study of quarterbacks in the NFL suggests that race impacts pay.? And this effect is largest for the…
…have established that cheering for a losing team can negatively affect happiness and self-esteem, so why do people persist in loving the underdog? Daniel Engber, exploring this puzzling propensity at…
…other ethical questions, and immediately plunge into Freakonomics.” Wondering what might have happened had he delayed his reading to spend more time on those “ethical questions” … (HT: Daniel Lippman)[%comments]…
Photo: Daniel Hamermesh In American restaurants, I have always seen a glass of wine (perhaps 6 to 7.5 ounces) sold for at least 1/3 of the price of a bottle…
…you think that identity economics might have become a dead-end? –Daniel R Hawes A. You are right that our basic model treats identity and norms as exogenously given – but…
…One, through individual donors. They’ve successfully raised $6,000 for the pilot episode (available on Vodo), and are hoping to raise an additional $20,000 for the next three episodes.?(HT: Daniel Gaglio)[%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…
…review? – Lenny A. What a delicious question! I believe this was something that the Texas A&M system has been trying to do, and Daniel Hamermesh was critical of the…
…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….