Our weekly roundup includes the tennis gender pay gap and toilet gap, free trade and individual businesses, and the purchasing power of the minimum wage.
Comparing the purchasing power of nominal and real wage rates among countries and for different years in one nation, we learn about standards of living.
Facing an aging population and more entitlements, countries that are encouraging more births to expand the labor force might be creating a bigger problem.
Princeton economist Angus Deaton estimates that it will take 500 years for Indian women to reach the height of English women. In The Great Escape, Dr. Deaton explains that a population could be short because of nutrition or disease. When babies…
I was just reading about John Isner (6’10”), Juan Martin del Potro (6’6″), Milos Raonic (6’5″) and Ivo Karlovic (6’10”). Top ranked tennis players, they represent an increasingly tall person’s sport. At this year’s US Tennis Open, 9 of the…
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