June 22, 2025
TTypical of food cargo theft, a recent massive egg heist followed a rise in egg prices and the availability of a perishable shipment.
June 5, 2025
With college graduation rates up, we can ask why women, more than men, have primarily been the beneficiaries.
March 17, 2025
With the rising price of coffee beans, like egg heists and egg smuggling, coffee thefts in the U.S. and Brazil are up.
September 7, 2023
Surprising economists, after pandemic lows, the number of working women in the labor force with young children went up.
August 2, 2023
Reconsidering archeological evidence from ancient hunter gatherer societies, scientists have been surprising us.
February 5, 2023
The closer we look at online dating markets, the more we see differences in the firms, the users, and the attitudes.
September 17, 2021
Much more than a source of clean clothing, the washing machine is an example of household technology that impacts women and the economy.
May 23, 2021
Especially evident during pandemic lockdowns, at home we have a chores gap that determines who does the housework.
February 5, 2021
November 6, 2020
As they replace the traditional ways that couples meet each other, onlne dating markets are reducing the role of friends and family.
September 7, 2020
On this Labor Day, we can explain the "middle-class time squeeze" by looking at how time/money tradeoffs changed a family's division of labor.
March 11, 2018
With Daylight Saving Time (DST) having just begun, we might find that shifting sunlight from the morning to the evening has made us safer.