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June 14, 2019
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June 14, 2019
The One Investment That Is (Probably) a Sure Thing

Calculating the value of college involves what we spend, what we sacrifice, what we earn, and some other surprising considerations.

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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 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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May 26, 2019
Weekly Economic News Roundup and temperature and productivity
May 26, 2019
How to Increase a Woman’s Productivity at Work

Starting with a woman's work productivity and then moving to U.S. productivity, we can see that even temperature makes a difference.

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May 12, 2019
Weekly Economic News Roundup and baby names
May 12, 2019
What Paternity Leave Can Do to Dads

With the popularity of paternity leave increasing, researchers wanted to know whether it influenced the number of children that fathers in Spain wanted.

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May 9, 2019
Weekly Economic News Roundup and kitchen history
May 9, 2019
Throwback Thursday: What a Kitchen Says About Us

#TBT: Looking at kitchen history on this Throwback Thursday, we can decide what a new kitchen from the 1920s says about us.

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April 22, 2019
sleep time
April 22, 2019
Do You Live Where You Should Sleep More?

When we consider the impact of social jetlag on our health and productivity, our sleep time could matter more than we think.

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April 17, 2019
Weekly Economic News Roundup and elite college Yale Library
April 17, 2019
How An Elite College Determines Your Future

Students and their parents might be surprised that a diploma from an elite college might not have the life-changing impact they expect.

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April 16, 2019
economic growth and green shoots
April 16, 2019
How We Spend Our Money

By looking at one hundred years of consumer spending history, we can see how our food, housing, and clothing reflected our growing affluence.

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April 14, 2019
Weekly Economic News Roundup and employee pay
April 14, 2019
Doing a Fractal Zoom Into Our Yearly Pay

Depending on whether you look at national statistics or the numbers on a company basis, employee median pay can look very different.

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April 4, 2019
Weekly Economic News Roundup and gender pay gap
April 4, 2019
The Mystery of the Vanishing Female CEOs

Using 85 observable characteristics, there was little that researchers could use from a Swedish study to prove why the glass ceiling blocks female CEOs.

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