The Econometrics Poem You've Been Waiting For
…an Ox. They use dummies for sex And like a bit of variance and deviation (from the mean) They prefer to have their parameters stable But sometimes have a break-point…
Couples get divorced for all kinds of reasons. Is having kids one of them? Bapu talks about research that investigates what happens to parents who unexpectedly have twins. Plus, an…
…an Ox. They use dummies for sex And like a bit of variance and deviation (from the mean) They prefer to have their parameters stable But sometimes have a break-point…
Playing notes on her piano, she demonstrates for Steve why whole numbers sound pleasing, why octaves are mathematically imperfect, and how math underlies musical composition. Sarah, a professor at the…
…here. It is absolutely absurd how self-serving and thoughtless Nancy Grace is in this interview. Elizabeth Smart came on her show to talk about a national sex offender registry and…
…for the newspapers, and eventually the courts put a stop to the whole thing. The problem then became: how could a young affianced couple have sex with each other when…
…to Greenland. She was quite a believer — so much that she reputedly refused to have sex with Eric until he built her a church. So the first church in…
…their brains and enable their ideas to combine and recombine, to meet and, indeed, to mate. In other words, you need to understand how ideas have sex.” Ridley also remains…
Okay, now I’m jealous.??Jezebel, the blog devoted to “celebrity, sex, fashion,” has?just referred to the “hippest-economist-ever?Betsey Stevenson.”? Levitt is welcome to the title of Rogue Economist.? But hippest-economist-ever?? That’s awesome.?…
One man’s attempt to remake his life in the mold of homo economicus.
…a book called Sex, Drugs and Economics: An Unconventional Intro to Economics. I guess what they say is true: it takes a freak show to know a freak show. Regardless,…
Beatrice Fihn wants to rid the world of nuclear weapons. As Russian aggression raises the prospect of global conflict, can she put disarmament on the world’s agenda?…
…my parents and their lawyers would like it known that neither they, nor any other member of my family, ever beat and/or had sex with me. I thought it was…
…Larry, Evslin lived to tell what may be the definitive story of those wild and crazy times. The mystery moves backwards and forwards around the time of Larry’s death. Sex,…
…with students at Florida State University who identified themselves as being in a romantic relationship: “Students were simultaneously presented with photos of attractive and average-looking individuals of the opposite sex…
The Columbia neuroscientist and psychology professor Carl Hart believes that recreational drug use, even heroin, methamphetamines, and cocaine, is an inalienable right. Can he convince Steve?…
Stephen Dubner’s conversation with the Virgin Group founder, recorded for the Freakonomics Radio series “The Secret Life of a C.E.O.”…
This week’s New York Magazine breaks down how money is made by all kinds of New York City individuals and businesses from a yellow-cab driver to sex shops to financial…
Where is the line between a good guy and a doormat? Do people with sharp elbows make more money? And why did Angela’s mother give away her birthday present? Take…
…repugnance and disgust centers of the brain are old and deep and often revolve around issues of body integrity, body products, hygiene, sex and death. Birth treads uneasily in many…
The state-by-state rollout of legalized weed has given economists a perfect natural experiment to measure its effects. Here’s what we know so far — and don’t know — about the…
Is a walk through the city as good as a walk through the woods? Who’s most likely to die while taking a selfie? And how does Angela protect herself from…
The bad news: Roughly 70 percent of Americans are financially illiterate. The good news: All the important stuff can fit on one index card. Here’s how to become your own…
…U.S. citizens in each age/sex group, whether or not they work, and assume that men aged 20 to 60 earned 50 shekels per time period in 2008. Then women aged…
…him. Meanwhile, Chick-fil-A had record-breaking profits after its President, Dan Cathy, drew a line in the sand over same-sex marriage. I read that “speaking of pigs” line three or four…
…economic roles, sex segregation in corporate criminality is pervasive, suggesting only subtle shifts in gender socialization and women’s opportunities for significant white-collar crimes. Our findings do not comport with images…
What is the cost of admitting you’re wrong? How can intellectual humility make you more open minded? And will Stephen finally persuade Angela that rum-raisin is the best flavor of…
…this study, we show that the Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of the leading UK businesses have greater FWHs than age- and sex-matched controls. We demonstrate that perceivers, naive as to…
…You know you only want to have sex with a social media expert. Stop lying about it. Start your business. C) Doubts. You need to have a real passion behind…
…behaviors which helped us survive on the savanna. Hunter-gatherer life assigned clear sex-specific roles. Women raised the children and did the gathering, while men hunted and were responsible for protecting…
…Island of Hawaii, Cunningham accepted prostitutes on two consecutive nights, a gift from Wilkes. Hiring two women for two hours of sex with the 60-year-old congressman cost Wilkes $600, according…
