June 29, 2018
Because of events that range from football victories to electrical outages, birth rates can spike or fall nine months later.
June 28, 2018
The skewed race and gender of the film critics that review our top grossing movies might not express what a more diverse group would say.
June 25, 2018
When the digits that appear frequently in national accounting figures, spreadsheets, and earnings reports are missing, then we can say we have suspicious numbers.
June 17, 2018
After doing their own version of the marshmallow test, researchers from NYU and UC Irvine told us to look at the value of delayed gratification somewhat differently.
June 12, 2018
Looking at a list of the ten worst reasons used to explain women's absence from corporate boards, we can see why progress has been slow.
June 8, 2018
When coffee drinkers hear that some prices at Starbucks will rise, their response will depend how how elastic their demand is.
May 23, 2018
The best designed railway stations and airports have behavioral nudges that travelers don't even know they are following.
May 21, 2018
Valued at billions of dollars, Starbucks has developed a global brand that added to what the Starbucks name was worth to Nestlé.
May 13, 2018
Recent research explains why and when we experience choice fatigue after seeing the alternatives at a salad bar or options at an auto dealer.
May 8, 2018
Although mandatory calorie count labels have become the law of the land, their impact on firms and consumers is still unpredictable.
April 30, 2018
Behavioral economists can explain why are lured into buying a year's subscription for movie watching and other media that we barely use.
April 25, 2018
Economic forecasting can frequently be inaccurate because of changing numbers and human bias or, as Yogi Berra reputedly said, "It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future."