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A nation's generous paternity leave policy does not necessarily diminish the size of the gender pay gap or job discrimination against women.
Deciding between artificial and real Christmas tree purchases, we can contemplate convenience, tradition, health, and even our cats.
By calculating Santa's wages through comparable occupations, we can determine if his yearly earnings increases are similar to U.S. workers.
From the nineteenth century to the twenty-first, our expectations for fast letter and package delivery have changed considerably.
Ranging from sock puppets in 2000 to the spread of the automobile in the 1920s, the causes of market bubbles are different and yet similar.
Hello Everyone-
I’m Elaine.
Having been in the classroom for decades, written three books (and some of a fourth one), I like to think about economics everywhere all the time. Every day, I’ve added a blog to econlife—now it has been almost 14 years and more than 4,000 posts. I am delighted that you are here and hope we can have some economic fun together.