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 26, 2015
This week's economic news summary includes Apple's corporate taxes, Santa's GDP connection, seasonal spending, the gender gap and the brain and shopping.
December 24, 2015
Although BLS data indicates what Santa's salary could be, because it is unpaid work and comes from the North Pole, it is excluded from the GDP.
December 22, 2015
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December 13, 2015
Monetary incentives can influence a decision and distort the information we access for our cost and benefit research.
December 12, 2015
This week's economic news summary included looking at human capital from a health care and college perspective and at area codes as conspicuous consumption.
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 6, 2015
Conveying a message about its place of origin, an area code becomes a status symbol that displays conspicuous consumption.
December 5, 2015
Our economic news summary included climate talks and externalities, "missing women" and Asian marriage markets, seniors' spending and manufacturing supply.
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.