Diplomatic immunity can give us an indication of corruption in a country by looking at whether consular officials pay parking tickets.…
Behavioral Economics
The intersection of psychology and economics, behavioral economics looks at human tendencies that involve biology and culture when predicting and explaining economic decision-making.
How to Create a CEO
Firstborn children are more likely to become CEOs, politicians, and top managers because of the way their parents treated them.…
Why Women in Movies Matter
Looking at women in movies, we form behavioral expectations about gender roles that relate to leadership, to speech, and to age.…
Some Fast & Furious Competition
As movie star brands, the images conveyed by three of the stars from the Fast & Furious film franchise reflect their macho focus.…
How To Make Kids Smarter
Fifty years ago, when Sesame Street was a new educational idea, it proved that watching TV could make our kids smarter academically and emotionally.…
How To Become Happier
When economists focus on measuring happiness, they look at money and time and health and GDP for conclusions that might not be quantifiable.…
What Our Time Costs Us
While the average life in the United States has 42 million minutes, the cost of spending time can depend on our wealth, where we live, and our age.…
How the Weather Affects What We Buy
Even influencing the kind of car we decide to buy, weather economics can have a surprising impact on the decisions we make as consumers.…
A Tale of Two Neighborhoods
Rather than identifying pockets of poverty, recent income mobility research suggests policy makers focus on opportunity areas.…
Why We All Need the Same Time
Whereas we moved from many time zones to four during the 19th century, now, with globalization, we should switch to coordinated universal time for everyone.…