Is High Unemployment Hurting Kids' Grades?
…Belsky, Vandergrift, Houts, & Morrison, 2008). The problem appears to be amplified under a system like No Child Left Behind, where funding is tied to test scores. Communities hard-hit by…
Do you think public bathrooms are too small, smartphones are too big, and public transit just wasn’t made for you? Then you’re probably a woman. In her book Invisible Women:…
In this special episode of Freakonomics, M.D., host Bapu Jena looks at data from birthday parties, March Madness parties, and a Freakonomics Radio holiday party to help us all manage…
We now have more access to TV, movies, and streaming entertainment than anytime in history. So what do we actually know about what all that screen time does to us?…
When trust in doctors or the healthcare system is lost, it’s really hard to get back. Bapu Jena explores the ripple effects of a C.I.A. operation to catch Osama bin…
Sure, you were “in love.” But economists — using evidence from Bridgerton to Tinder — point to what’s called “assortative mating.” And it has some unpleasant consequences for society….
Heeding the warnings of public health officer Charity Dean about Covid-19 could have saved lives. Charity explains why she loves infectious diseases and why she moved to the private sector….
Breakthroughs in biotech that seem like science fiction are becoming reality. Why aren’t more patients benefiting from them?…
It’s not a new question, but it’s a tricky one to study. Bapu explains why, and talks about how an N.F.L. labor dispute helped him get some answers….
Sure, you were “in love.” But economists — using evidence from Bridgerton to Tinder — point to what’s called “assortative mating.” And it has some unpleasant consequences for society….
Youth baseball — long a widely accessible American pastime — has become overrun by $10,000-per-year for-profit travel leagues. Zachary Crockett peers inside the dugout….
…comes to the national debt. Stephen Dubner finds one of the few people in Washington who is willing to tell the truth — and it’s even worse than you think….
Youth baseball — long a widely accessible American pastime — has become overrun by $10,000-per-year, for-profit travel leagues. Zachary Crockett peers inside the dugout.
Former U.S. Secretary of Education, 3×3 basketball champion, and leader of an anti-gun violence organization are all on Arne’s resume. He’s also Steve’s neighbor. The two talk about teachers caught…
…Belsky, Vandergrift, Houts, & Morrison, 2008). The problem appears to be amplified under a system like No Child Left Behind, where funding is tied to test scores. Communities hard-hit by…
…make him eligible to play with younger children. While I don’t think this is actually the primary reason for what people find in these studies, is definitely worth thinking about….
…He wanted to combine health-related philanthropy with an approach to solving hunger in America. I think that Debra (comment #380) is thinking like I am. I’d like to create a…
…eighth and last child of an upstate New York newspaperman, Stephen has been writing since he was a child. (His first published work appeared in Highlights magazine.) As an undergraduate…
…to give your child, is that going to hurt their life outcomes; is campaign spending as important as everybody thinks it is? LAUER: So what’s freakonomics, technically? Mr. LEVITT: Well,…
…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…
…that statistic is accurate. BENNETT: Well, I don’t think it is either, I don’t think it is either, because first of all, there is just too much that you don’t…
The answer is at least one. This morning I saw Barack Obama dropping off his child at nursery school. Obama is the junior senator from Illinois who exploded onto the…
…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…
…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…
As many readers of this blog may recall, we have written about child car seats and how they seemingly provide no safety advantage over seat belts for children 2 and…
…like. Shall I use your office address below? Thanks, SJD _________________________ email #2: This next one is hard-nosed and thoughtful — the sort of email that we like to get…
…transform a child from this: to this: and that seemed like an awfully good way to spend $250. (You can read about this little girl Shiva’s story here.) I had…
…yet been approved by the F.D.A. for children under 5, but based on these articles, that sounds very likely. Dr. Robert B. Belshe, the lead author of the study, is…
After misinterpreting the data on the side-impact crash tests it ran on child car seats, Consumer Reports is changing its methodology on such tests, enlisting the help of experts in…
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….
…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…