Through a cost and benefit approach to crime control, the limited money available for municipal spending can be spent most efficiently.
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.
A Poaching Problem that Regulation Hasn’t Solved
The market solutions and regulatory approaches used to solve the problem of elephant poaching have not worked for wildlife conservation in Africa.
India’s Height Mystery
Long assumed to have a direct relationship, the connection between height and GDP becomes more complex when we compare India and Africa.
Why Money Might Not Motivate Us
Investigating intrinsic and extrinsic incentives, researchers have explained why money does not always promote positive performance.
Why the Social Security Crisis Has Begun
Caused by aging baby boomers, expanded criteria and the remnants of the great recession, SSDI entitlement spending is approaching insolvency.
The Happiness Gap Between Parents and Non-Parents
Although highly educated women have started having more children, academic studies indicate that children do not necessarily help our subjective well-being.
The Data Leaks That Move Markets
In financial markets, data security relates to the timing of data releases because premature releases or leaks unfairly favor one group of investors.
Love, Marriage and Inequality
As female labor force participation increased since the 1970s, so too has the income inequality that resulted from assortative mating of higher earners.
The Reversed Role of Chinese Deposit Insurance
While many nations have deposit Insurance and China will have theirs very soon, the quality and the confidence in different deposit insurance schemes vary.
Self-Signaling by Standing in Line
Whether you stand in long lines to self-signal or you hire someone to do the wait for you, your decision reflects tradeoffs that relate to time.