With a poor hiring record for female college coaches, many universities and athletic conferences have received dismal gender bias grades.…
Finding the Hollywood Gender Gap (Everywhere)
From top stars’ salaries, to the people who speak in films, the Hollywood gender gap can be found in most of the major movies.…
Weekly Roundup: From Free Trade to Expensive Airline Tickets
Our economic news summary includes Venezuela’s hyperinflation and Dutch Disease, the NFL’s gender deficiencies, free trade, and new marriage markets.…
Giving the NFL a C+
Because their human capital includes relatively few women, the NFL’s 32 teams have a glass ceiling that diminishes the talented people they could hire.…
Weekly Roundup: From Garbage Questions to Credit Card Costs
Our economic news summary includes expectations bias and female scholars, the environmental debate about garbage and hidden credit card externalities.…
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.…
Weekly Roundup: From Robot Servers to Shrimp Farmers
Our everyday economics includes wages, externalities, productivity, income, tradeoff, taxes, fiscal policy, gender, human capital and comparative advantage.…
Why Major League Baseball Has a C+ Gender Grade
Because the presence of women in Major League Baseball (MLB) management positions is very small, they have diminished their talented human capital supply.…
Weekly Roundup: From Uber's Impact to the Cost of Children
Our everyday economics includes social norms, tradeoffs, financial intermediaries, human capital, sovereign debt, externalities,labor markets, & gender gap.…
Hollywood's Gender Gap
The film industry gender gap displayed behind the scenes and in front of the camera through male domination reflects expectations bias.…