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…about doing it? Definitely not. What programs like No Child Left Behind have changed, however, is the stake that higher levels of government have in getting rid of cheating. State…
Mark Zuckerberg’s dentist dad was an early adopter of digital x-rays. Jack Welch blew the roof off a factory. Carol Bartz was a Wisconsin farm girl who got into computers….
After struggling to schedule a flu shot for his own toddler, host Bapu Jena went down a research rabbit hole. He discovered that the time of year kids are born…
…about doing it? Definitely not. What programs like No Child Left Behind have changed, however, is the stake that higher levels of government have in getting rid of cheating. State…
…are bigger in Texas.) “‘A Fascinating, Sexy, Intellectually Compelling, Unregulated Global Market.’” (Ep. 484): The art market is so opaque and illiquid that it barely functions like a market at…
…And on a cultural level, allowing men to pick up more of the burden of childcare without that being viewed as emasculating. I think we are likely to see changes…
How a pain-in-the-neck girl from rural Virginia came to run the most powerful university in the world.
In a Freakonomics Radio episode called “Misadventures in Baby-Making,” we looked at the unintended consequences of China’s One Child Policy. A new paper (gated) in Science looks at the so-called…
Photo: Kelly Crabtree Just how important is Mom during a child’s first year of life? A new working paper by the economists Pedro Carneiro, Katrine V. Løken, and Kjell G….
It facilitates crime, bribery, and tax evasion – and yet some governments (including ours) are printing more cash than ever. Other countries, meanwhile, are ditching cash entirely. And if Star…
…and you have absolutely no choice. How does this play out? As an example, when my eldest child was applying to pre-school, I had my mother’s cousin, a prominent child…
It may seem like winning a valuable diamond is an unalloyed victory. It’s not. It’s not even clear that a diamond is so valuable.
By mid-century, 10 million people a year are projected to die from untreatable infections. Can Cassandra, an ethnobotanist at Emory University convince Steve that herbs and ancient healing are key…
…child provides would help determine a two-pronged question: do these middle-schoolers know about the formation of democracy in ancient Greece? And how well do they know it? But that’s not…
…business school.” Would you cut us some slack? I think we are smarter than you give us credit for! Especially for two guys who are willing to go back 20-plus…
…In the chapter “What Makes A Perfect Parent?” it says that changing schools does not have an impact on the child. This is untrue, as i moved from Canada to…
…thrown out (almost as if I was making sure they stayed out of my present life? Retribution?). The second instinctive thought was to think how another child might use the…
How a pain-in-the-neck girl from rural Virginia came to run the most powerful university in the world.
Arthur Rothstein, U.S. Office of War Information Child of a migratory farm laborer in the field during the harvest of the community center’s cabbage crop, FSA labor camp, Texas, circa…
One of my earliest and happiest memories was being released from a hospital oxygen tent when I was a small child. I had developed pneumonia and was in pretty bad…
One of the most controversial small points in Freakonomics was the claim that early childhood test scores are not correlated to the amount a child is read to at home….
This week’s episode of Freakonomics Radio takes a look at Pope Francis’s critique of the free-market system in “Evangelii Gaudium” (“The Joy of the Gospel”), his first apostolic exhortation….
…reports that in the court of child support, officials are also taking a new approach to collecting payments: Officials reported collecting a record $731 million in child-support payments last year,…
Corporate Social Responsibility programs can attract better job applicants who’ll work for less money. But they also encourage employees to misbehave. Don’t laugh — you too probably engage in “moral…
…the child’s gender (for example, “Do you want the Digisports or the Hello Kitty toy?”). 3. McDonald’s asked whether the Happy Meal was for a boy or a girl. 4….
…Project, a U.S.-based non-profit organization, to do this. An inspiring story of someone trying to turn waste into something good. That of course is great, and I like the ingenuity….
…Levitt finds out what daily life is like in a silent monastery, why teens find it easier than adults to learn meditation, and what happy children can teach their parents….
We spend billions on our pets, and one of the fastest-growing costs is pet “aftercare.” But are those cremated remains you got back really from your pet?…
…and amplification. What About the Children? It can be argued that depriving children of parents in order to incarcerate the parents for the purpose of punishment is itself a criminogenic…
…officer. If your pregnancy is advanced enough that you know the sex of your child and have named him or her, refer to the child as your son/daughter and use…
…and revisit information on sleep, nappy changes, feeding (both breast-milk and solids), medicines, and pumping. Keeping track of your child’s evolving sleeping patterns (via the internet or even your iPhone)…
