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 20, 2015
Our everyday economics includes scarcity, tradeoffs, cost, sustainability, hyperinflation, gender issues, externalities, African development, human capital.
June 18, 2015
Called potty parity, equal access to public restrooms for women and men is a gender issue that creates negative externalities for women at work and leisure.
June 13, 2015
Our everyday economics includes externalities, branding, monopolistic competition, sovereign debt, game theory, elasticity, taxes, markets and the glass ceiling.
June 11, 2015
Wage data from 1981 to 2012 show that women who are top earners have made progress in cracking the glass ceiling but their numbers remain relatively low.
June 6, 2015
May 30, 2015
Our everyday economics includes innovation, incentives, environment, regulation, gender,monopolistic competition, oligopoly ,intellectual property and cost,
May 27, 2015
Stereotypical depictions of women in cartoons reinforces an expectations bias that men are authority figures while women are parents.
May 23, 2015
Our everyday economics includes behavioral economics, commitment devices, environment, supply, regulation, free trade, gender issues and the minimum wage.
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 16, 2015
Our everyday economics includes behavioral economics, trade barriers, taxes, entitlements, externalities, intellectual property and industrialization.
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.