Our weekly news roundup includes Starbucks Rewards and marginal thinking, the opportunity cost of housework, and how clothing affects human capital.…
How Clothes Establish (or Eliminate) Dominance
To achieve success at work in high-stakes events, wearing clothing with status symbols that signal social class, power and education can lift productivity.…
Weekly Roundup: 6 Mysteries
Our everyday economic stories involve participation rates, human capital, signaling, ROI, money, price, austerity, personal income, monopoly and bubbles.…
The Mystery of Why Grads From 4 Year Colleges Earn More
It is a mystery whether college matters because it creates better human capital or creates signals that indicate graduates completed a long-term task.…