While working at home has become the focus of a new French law, the bigger issue could be how much new technology enables the firm to monitor our lives.
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 a Soap Opera Affected Brazil’s Fertility Rate
During the past 40 years, Brazil’s fertility rates declined. One cause was the new values that soap operas conveyed to an uneducated rural population.
How Fast Fashion Affects Our Brain
Through the pleasure and pain that fast fashion shopping creates in our brains, we can see why the business model is good for monopolistic competition.
What We Are Willing to Do For Money
Monetary incentives can influence a decision and distort the information we access for our cost and benefit research.
Where Toilets “Take a Village”
Shown by a project in rural India, building a sanitation network that includes toilets can eliminate open defecation and the disease it creates.
Marriage Markets in China and India
With son preference, limited fertility and social norms, China’s and India’s sex ratios at birth have created a male glut and new marriage markets.
The Cost of Garbage
With landfills, recycling and composting the alternatives, garbage incineration that generates electricity has become increasingly popular.
Why Shades of Gray Might Lead to Better Research
Through his Reproducibility Project, Brian Nosek shows that scientific accuracy can be assessed through replication of results and prediction markets.
Why Women Don’t Get the Credit They Deserve
Expectations bias is among the top gender issues for female economists because we are predisposed to think of a male when looking at academic research.