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July 2, 2019
Weekly Economic News Roundup and Medicare worries
July 2, 2019
The Problem With Healthcare Price Shopping

While healthcare price transparency sounds like a logical way to constrain soaring healthcare costs, the results were not quite what we expected.

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June 30, 2019
Weekly Economic News Roundup and free tuition
June 30, 2019
Why Free Tuition Is Like An Onion

When Kalamazoo, Michigan made college more accessible to high school graduates through a free tuition program, they were surprised by some of the results.

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June 27, 2019
Weekly Economic News Roundup and lost wallets
June 27, 2019
The Countries That Return Lost Wallets

Looking at honor systems in stores and for lost wallets, we can see how people respond and where to find the most honesty.

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June 26, 2019
Weekly Economic News Roundup and policy and product gender inequity
June 26, 2019
Why Snow Removal in Sweden Is Sexist

Frequently invisible, the gender inequity we could see in our public policies and product design extends to snow removal and pianos

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June 24, 2019
traffic lights and Adam Smith's Laissez-faire
June 24, 2019
Why Did the Pedestrian Cross the Road?

In NYC and in Nantucket, Massachusetts, drivers respond to different incentives because Manhattan has traffic lights while Nantucket does not.

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June 21, 2019
Weekly Economic News Roundup and working mothers
June 21, 2019
How A Working Mother’s Time Use Has Changed

Working mothers have changed the amount of time they spend on the job, and also on household chores, caring for children, sleeping, and leisure.

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June 19, 2019
Weekly Economic News Roundup and fast food
June 19, 2019
A Surprising Fast-Food Fact

Although fast-food consumption has been connected to income, recent research indicates the correlation is not what we expect.

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June 16, 2019
congestion pricing
June 16, 2019
Why Mapping Apps Create the Prisoner’s Dilemma

The success of a decision to use Waze, Google Maps, and other mapping apps to avoid traffic can depend on outsmarting the prisoner's dilemma.

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June 11, 2019
Taylor Swift and traffic fatalities
June 11, 2019
How Taylor Swift Uses Temptation Bundling

Because album bundles increase our demand for a star's recordings, they help to propel a song or album to the #1 Billboard spot.

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May 30, 2019
Weekly Economic News Roundup and invading ride-share markets
May 30, 2019
The Five Stars We Don’t Deserve

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May 29, 2019
Weekly Economic News Roundup and branding Eswatini flag
May 29, 2019
Why the Name of a Country Is Its Brand

Like corporations, countries engage in branding when they change their name or try to influence what the world thinks about them and their products.

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May 27, 2019
weekly economic news roundup and unemployment
May 27, 2019
Why An Economist Might Like a Restaurant Queue

Because a restaurant queue can help supply and demand, some eating establishments create the signal that it sends to diners.

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