January 4, 2017
While working at home has become the focus of a new French law, the bigger issue could be how much new technology enables the firm to monitor our lives.
January 2, 2017
November 17, 2016
From the Wells Fargo scandal to the British National Health Service and Chilean bus drivers, sometimes incentives can have unintended consequences.
December 29, 2015
During the past 40 years, Brazil's fertility rates declined. One cause was the new values that soap operas conveyed to an uneducated rural population.
December 13, 2015
Monetary incentives can influence a decision and distort the information we access for our cost and benefit research.
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.
December 7, 2015
If Finland replaces benefits with a monthly check, the tradeoffs for its safety net programs will be domestic and international.
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 19, 2015
With landfills, recycling and composting the alternatives, garbage incineration that generates electricity has become increasingly popular.
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.