The Baby Boomer Home Sale Surge

As Baby Boomers decide whether they want to move, downsize, sell or rent, housing markets could see an avalanche of home sales.

How Women and Men Respond Differently to Gender Branding

Like other firms that try gender branding, the makers of Chick Beer discovered that women responded differently from their male customers.

How Transparency Transformed Food Shopping

When the development of cellophane let us have self-service shopping for meat and produce, it started a retailing revolution.

Part 2: Understanding the Student Loan Crisis

On the post secondary institution side of the student loan crisis, eligible Title IV schools charge higher tuition than similar non Title IV schools.

The Significance of Potty Parity

Called potty parity, equal access to public restrooms for women and men is a gender issue that creates negative externalities for women at work and leisure.

The Reason Jobs Numbers Don’t Have to be Real

Hearing the unemployment rate and jobs creation numbers, we should know the numbers weren’t real because the BLS seasonally adjusted them.

The Vaccine Benefits That No One Talks About

With better school attendance and learning, and then higher work productivity, the positive externalities of childhood vaccination have an economic impact.

The Problems With College Ranking

Just like grading human capital, ranking college quality through a single number hides the subjectivity of the process.

Ethical Dilemmas for College Endowments

The closer you look at ethical investing for university endowments, the more you see the tradeoffs. The headline coverage began when Stanford announced it would “not make direct investments in coal mining companies.” Explaining, Stanford’s President John Hennessy said, “Stanford has a responsibility as a global citizen…

Problems With Grade Deflation

The number of hours we study is down and our grades are up. Between 1961 and 2003, full time college students diminished their study time from 40 to 27 hours a week. And yet, they have been getting higher grades.…