October 16, 2018
Documented in the entertainment category of consumer expenditures, pet spending has increased at the same time that their names have changed.
September 17, 2018
Reflecting our new food preferences, what we've been eating for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and even for dessert has changed.
September 13, 2018
When natural disasters like hurricanes, massive snowstorms, and wildfires strike a region, their economic impact is far more than the clean-up.
September 12, 2018
Called the Starbucks effect, current and future housing prices tend to rise when a Starbucks moves into the neighborhood.
August 9, 2018
Although Social Security solvency has not been in the headlines, it remains a massive challenge that we need to understand.
July 25, 2018
To see if we allocate time like a typical American, we can look at a jelly beans video and the annual American Time Use Survey (ATUS).
July 24, 2018
Because the ageing population of people who are 65 and older has become more healthy and active, we need to recognize a "young-old" group.
July 12, 2018
Two new papers have looked more closely at the mommy penalty and even identified how women who have no children are affected.
June 29, 2018
Because of events that range from football victories to electrical outages, birth rates can spike or fall nine months later.
June 27, 2018
June 8, 2018
When coffee drinkers hear that some prices at Starbucks will rise, their response will depend how how elastic their demand is.
June 7, 2018
With debt and delinquencies multiplying, a student loan crisis could be developing but on the other hand, not necessarily.