…status, and number of children, is there still a wage gap? — Andy When you compare “apples to apples” (i.e., a childless, college-educated 29-year-old female in an urban area to…
…leader David Cameron — the likely winner, per the prediction markets, in the yet-to-be called election — has just unleashed a doozy: his wife Samantha is expecting the couple’s fourth…
…industrialized nations, the current rate of maternal death during childbirth is 9 women per 100,000 births. Just one hundred years ago, the rate was more than fifty times higher. In…
…you day? Child:???? Fine. Parent:? What happened? Child😕 Not Much. I’ve never asked my kids to pitch me their day.? But many a time I have asked them to tell…
…of semantic mirror image of “You’re right,” this acknowledgment seems, at first, equally likely to please.? And we certainly claim to want to hear these words more often than we…
…a third of all children in the U.S. are overweight or obese, the study underscores both the power of advertising to influence young children and the ineffectiveness of using the…
…the performance of any extra chores and activities: from housekeeping to child care to sexual relations. In all households, children have a piecework scale for their various domestic responsibilities. Good…
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….
…murders, kidnappings, and the like. Just today, the Wall Street Journal published an article about how few child kidnappings are in fact the result of a stranger taking a child:…
…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….
…trickier and more philosophical estate-dividing problem: (Photo: Jack Hollingsworth) My grandmother is 93 and in decent health. She has 4 biological children, 10 grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren and a great-great-grandchild is…
…he started thinking about the need for noninvasive tests when his wife was pregnant with their first child. His wife was over 35 years old and her doctors recommended amniocentesis….
…as always, let us know what you think in the comments section. Julie Marsh is an adjunct researcher at the RAND Corporation, a non-profit research organization, and visiting associate professor…
…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…
…(one is featured in the book) who think it’s quite possible to teach children to control themselves — and that this is the greatest gift parents can give their children….
…going to get misdirected into a … little baby (Jobs’ parents must’ve felt that way as well. Like father, like son). But people change, mature, grow up. Eventually Jobs became…
…languages, it might look like this. A young child says, “I am hungry.” The parent replies, “Wait! Before saying am, you first must learn to conjugate to be in all…
…to ask a doctor: “What would you do in my case if this was happening to you/your child/your parent?” –VBinNV A. This is an excellent question that patients frequently ask…
…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,…
…needs and less likely to put up a fight. But experiments like Geoffrey Canada’s Harlem Children’s Zone hint at the enormous impact that early educational support can have on lifetime…
…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…
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…
…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…
As we’ve argued in Freakonomics and in a recent podcast, a child’s first name isn’t nearly as influential on that child’s outcome as many people would like to think. That…
…since the 1930s has measured children from shortly after birth until age 18. Most of the children come from the area near Dayton, Ohio, which is not a mirror of…
…and academic circles that early childhood interventions—like high quality pre-schools—were the most promising prospect for the next round of educational reforms. But testing the impact of an educational reform like…
It can be found here under “Editorial Reviews.” In case you don’t feel like clicking through: In one of the many wonderful moments in Think Like a Freak, Steven Levitt…
Most Americans agree that racial discrimination has been, and remains, a big problem. But that is where the agreement ends.
…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….
Kenji Lopez-Alt became a rock star of the food world by bringing science into the kitchen in a way that everyday cooks can appreciate. Then he dared to start his…
