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…the phone and deter crime. The success of the iPhone tracking apps suggests that this is a market that is waiting to be more completely filled. (Hat tip: Joshua Gans)…
A recent outbreak of illness and death has gotten everyone’s attention — including late-to-the-game regulators. But would a ban on e-cigarettes do more harm than good? We smoke out the…
What surprises lurk in our sewage? How did racist city planners end up saving Black lives? Why does Arizona grow hay for cows in Saudi Arabia? Three strange stories about…
In their chase for a global audience, American movie studios spend billions to make their films look amazing. But almost none of those dollars stay in America. What would it…
Why have fertility rates dropped so dramatically? Do fathers or mothers get more happiness from parenting? And how does birth order affect a child’s future?…
A tiny behavioral-sciences startup is trying to improve the way federal agencies do their work. Considering the size (and habits) of most federal agencies, this isn’t so simple. But after…
Interest in houseplants has exploded in recent years. But what causes floral trends, and prices, to grow? Zachary Crockett sows a few seeds….
…the phone and deter crime. The success of the iPhone tracking apps suggests that this is a market that is waiting to be more completely filled. (Hat tip: Joshua Gans)…
…our system (we’re working on it), time diversification will require some additional work.? But doing a better job diversifying risk across time can be worth the effort. (Hat Tip:?Joshua Gans)…
…9. Knowing she spent more than 15 years working on the project, it is easier for me to understand how it turned out so great. (Hat tip to Joshua Gans.)…
…might do to encourage parental leave will still not change the fact that it is likely that women will take it up more than men.? –Joshua Gans A. OK, as…
…happened. Joshua Gans is a professor at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. His book Parentonomics was published by MIT Press in 2009. What is our worse…
…Here’s?a (self-promotional) hint. Can you conjure a?Google trend with a countercyclical pattern (that is, with elevated searching before the New Year but lower than average levels in January)? (HT:?Joshua Gans)…
My friend Joshua Gans is one of Australia’s best young economists, and he is also a parent. And as passionate as Joshua is about economics, he’s just as passionate about…
Boosters say blockchain technology will usher in a brave new era of decentralization. Are they right — and would it be a dream or a nightmare? (Part 3 of “What…
When she’s not rescuing chickens from coyotes, Susan Athey uses economics to address real-world challenges — from online ad auctions to carbon capture technology….
Joshua Gans, (author of the forthcoming Parentonomics), has an interesting post on “data-driven Parenting.” Turns out that there is a cool web service: Trixie Tracker, that allows parents to record…
Over at CoreEconomics, Joshua Gans points out that Steve Levitt’s research is no longer judged to be normal economics. Or at least his work doesn’t belong with the “normal papers.”…
…effort, stress, and out-of-pocket cost of a singleton. As Joshua Gans of Parentonomics writes: “But regardless of the level of the cost curve for parenting, it is surely the case…
…and happiness, you’ll hear plenty more from Betsey and me, and our own little natural experiment—our daughter Matilda. You’ll also hear from Bryan Caplan, and Joshua Gans of Parentonomics fame….
mRNA vaccines helped bring the pandemic under control. Could they also train the immune system to fight cancer?…
…to efficient outcomes when exposed to one lead singer of the rock band AC/DC versus another. I hope for this guy’s sake he has tenure. (Hat tip to Joshua Gans.)…
…a humble enough bloke that it won’t go to his head. But it’s always fun to hear about the good guys doing well. Congratulations Andrew! (More here from Joshua Gans.)…
The debut of a live game show from Freakonomics Radio, with judges Malcolm Gladwell, Ana Gasteyer, and David Paterson….
…is inherently about a clash of cultures, I was pretty shocked to read the following: Some parents at J.H.S. 22 … were suspicious, viewing Mr. Waronker as too much an…
The famously profane politician and operative is now U.S. ambassador to Japan, where he’s trying to rewrite the rules of diplomacy. But don’t worry: When it comes to China, he’s…
March 22 was World Water Day, and two excellent photo essays draw attention to the issue. Foreign Policy shows images of water crises in places like China, Pakistan and Iraq,…
…photography in the magazine, by the way, and will do so even more in 2008. So I don’t think we’re overlooking anything. However, when the Brazilian edition runs 22-24 page…
…where 22% more solar energy lands each year (according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory), and yet only one in 90 homes harvest it. If San Francisco’s residential solar panels…
Covid-19 has shocked our food-supply system like nothing in modern history. We examine the winners, the losers, the unintended consequences — and just how much toilet paper one household really…
…stop something else that’s going on.” “So instead of hiding the 22 Marlo Stanfield murders and playing it down, the mayor should make it out to be a gang war?”…
