December 9, 2015
With higher college tuition and less wage growth for college grads, still, the college wage premium and its opportunity cost make college worth it.
December 8, 2015
Shown by a project in rural India, building a sanitation network that includes toilets can eliminate open defecation and the disease it creates.
November 30, 2015
With son preference, limited fertility and social norms, China's and India's sex ratios at birth have created a male glut and new marriage markets.
November 18, 2015
Through his Reproducibility Project, Brian Nosek shows that scientific accuracy can be assessed through replication of results and prediction markets.
November 16, 2015
Expectations bias is among the top gender issues for female economists because we are predisposed to think of a male when looking at academic research.
November 5, 2015
Whether calculating the poverty rate in Rwanda or in the U.S., the income and/or consumption variables you select determine your results.
October 29, 2015
Showing the connection between inflation and unemployment, the Phillips Curve has been re-interpreted, re-affirmed and condemned as a monetary policy tool.
October 21, 2015
A debt ceiling controversy could erupt by November 3rd when Jack Lew says the U.S. Treasury will need to borrow to meet its spending obligations.
October 14, 2015
The 2015 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, Angus Deaton studied inequality through health and wealth and micro and macroeconomics.
October 5, 2015
Because credit card scores predict trustworthiness and financial distress, they indicate whether a co-habitation relationship will be long lasting.
September 14, 2015
While some high middle income economies have slowed down and then accelerated again, using World Bank criteria, China's economic growth is tough to predict.
August 25, 2015
