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 13, 2015
Reducing environmental externalities from greenhouse gas emissions involves the methane that cows and other ruminants burp.
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.
November 2, 2015
Although China has said it will replace its one-child policy with a two child limit, small families remain a social norm that will be tough to change.
October 27, 2015
One reason we have a labor force participation rate of 62.4 percent is because retirees, students, the disabled and people who care for family do not work.
October 25, 2015
October 23, 2015
Because of aging populations in the developed world and in China, concern about care for the elderly and rising dependency ratios have increased.
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 18, 2015
While Denmark has universal healthcare, family benefits and pays for college, its social welfare system requires high taxes and other sacrifices.
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.