July 1, 2015
Comparing debt to GDP is like looking at a mortgage loan and household net worth. It can help us decide when a sovereign debt became too large.
June 30, 2015
To the dollars families spend on children, we can add the cost of stress from the time we devote to developing a child's human capital.
June 22, 2015
Regulation can have unintended consequences. With football helmets or seat belts or even financial regulation, protection can create more reckless behavior.
June 14, 2015
Through a cost and benefit approach to crime control, the limited money available for municipal spending can be spent most efficiently.
June 5, 2015
The market solutions and regulatory approaches used to solve the problem of elephant poaching have not worked for wildlife conservation in Africa.
June 1, 2015
Long assumed to have a direct relationship, the connection between height and GDP becomes more complex when we compare India and Africa.
May 25, 2015
Investigating intrinsic and extrinsic incentives, researchers have explained why money does not always promote positive performance.
May 21, 2015
Through the industrialization of just one slice of bread, we can see the history of the U.S. economy since the beginning of the 20th century.
May 13, 2015
Caused by aging baby boomers, expanded criteria and the remnants of the great recession, SSDI entitlement spending is approaching insolvency.
May 10, 2015
Although highly educated women have started having more children, academic studies indicate that children do not necessarily help our subjective well-being.
May 8, 2015
In financial markets, data security relates to the timing of data releases because premature releases or leaks unfairly favor one group of investors.
May 7, 2015
As female labor force participation increased since the 1970s, so too has the income inequality that resulted from assortative mating of higher earners.