Twenty-Five Dollars an Hour
Yahoo recently ran a story entitled “Surprising Jobs that Pay $25 an Hour.” Read More »
The "Girth-Wealth" Gradient
The poorer you are, the fatter you’re likely to be, and the fatter you get, the poorer you’re likely to become. Slate’s Dan Engber has more on what this means for health reform. Read More »
Happiness Trends Lead to Some Strange Places
Interdisciplinary research can take you to some unexpected places. You may have heard about a paper that Betsey Stevenson and I wrote a while back, documenting that the average level of happiness among women has trended downward relative to that of men. It’s an interesting fact, and we aren’t quite sure whether it tells us about the reliability of happiness data, the women’s movement, or other changes in men’s and women’s lives. Read More »
A Scholar to Keep Your Eye On
Amadu Jacky Kaba is a Liberian-born striver who first came to Seton Hall University as a basketball player and, several degrees later, has returned as an assistant professor of sociology and anthropology. Like our friend Roland Fryer, Kaba is a black scholar who studies a lot of racial issues with a perspective and a latitude that is unavailable to white scholars. Read More »
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