February 24, 2015
With better school attendance and learning, and then higher work productivity, the positive externalities of childhood vaccination have an economic impact.
February 20, 2015
Facing an aging population and more entitlements, countries that are encouraging more births to expand the labor force might be creating a bigger problem.
February 19, 2015
As population shifts, developed nations will have redistribution decisions as the proportion of the non-working aged and the young need more labor income.
February 17, 2015
Average Americans disagree with the economic consensus for many issues according to surveys from the University of Chicago Booth School.
February 13, 2015
As the source of monetary policy, the Federal Reserve has to decide if interest rates should rise when inflation is low but a jobs recovery has begun.
February 9, 2015
Limiting potential economic growth, the myth of innate talent in disciplines like philosophy diminishes the pool of female and Afro-American human capital.
January 21, 2015
With implications that extend beyond sports, believers in classical economics and in behavioral economics are debating whether players can have streaks.
January 20, 2015
Explained by behavioral economics, we save relatively little for retirement because of intertemporal selfishness and seeing our future selves as strangers.
January 15, 2015
While everyone refers to the middle class and most of us say we are in the middle class, few know the characteristics of the group to which they refer.
January 9, 2015
January 8, 2015
With the House requiring dynamic scoring of tax legislation from the CBO, the bigger tax debate resurfaces on how much redistribution and spending.
January 4, 2015
Behavioral economic ideas show that product differentiation and consumer preference are more from branding than the taste of colas or beers.