Investigating intrinsic and extrinsic incentives, researchers have explained why money does not always promote positive performance.
Microeconomics
What Bread Says About Women
Through the industrialization of just one slice of bread, we can see the history of the U.S. economy since the beginning of the 20th century.
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.
When Your Ability to Pay Determines Your Punishment
In Finland, for some traffic violations, the rich have higher fines than those with less because of day fines that are similar to progressive taxation.
What Tweets Can Say About the Dow
Researchers are exploring how message volume and sentiment analysis in social media like Twitter and Yahoo can be used to predict financial markets.