Levitt admits to having the reading interests of a tweener girl, the Twilight series and Harry Potter in particular.
Keepers jump left 57 percent of the time and right 41 percent—which means they stay in the center only 2 times out of 100. A leaping keeper may of course still stop a ball aimed at the center, but how...
Information is the currency of the Internet. As a medium, the Internet is brilliantly efficient at shifting information from the hands of those who have it into the hands of those who do not. Often, a...
In Switzerland, every adult male is issued an assault rifle for militia duty and is allowed to keep the gun at home. On a per capita basis, Switzerland has more firearms than just about any other coun...
In 1960, about 40 percent of female teachers scored in the top quintile of IQ and other aptitude tests, with only 8 percent in the bottom. Twenty years later, fewer than half as many were in the top q...
If it takes a lot of courage to admit you don't know all the answers, just imagine how hard it is to admit you don't even know the right question. But if you ask the wrong question, you are almost gua...
Great news, right? Well, not so fast. First of all, because the average black child is more likely to come from a low-income, low-education household, the gap is very real: on average, black children...
Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg understood this. In medicine, or in science, [if] you go down a path and it turns out to be a dead end, you really made a contribution, because we know we...
Few people think more than two or three times a year, Shaw reportedly said.
Correlation does not equal causality.
Colleges and universities, meanwhile, have no such qualms about torturing their applicants. Think about how much work a high-school student must do to even be considered for a spot at a decent college...
But while there are exceptions to every rule, it’s also good to know the rule.
But when it comes to solving problems, one of the best ways to start is by putting away your moral compass.Why?When you are consumed with the rightness or wrongness of a given issue—whether it's frack...
But one need not oppose abortion on moral or religious grounds to feel shaken by the notion of a private sadness being converted into a public good.
But if there is one thing we’ve learned from a lifetime of designing and analyzing incentives, the best way to get what you want is to treat other people with decency. Decency can push almost any inte...
Black students are hardly the only ones who suffer in bad schools. White children in these schools also perform poorly. In fact, there is essentially no black-white test score gap within a bad school...
Beliefs, things we hold to be true but which may not be easily verified.
And while it sounds bad to hear that Americans underpay their taxes by nearly one-fifth, the tax economist Joel Slemrod estimates that the U.S. is easily within the upper tier of worldwide compliance...
After recent events, one might wonder if the macroeconomy is the domain of any economist.
A person who is lying or cheating will often respond to an incentive differently than an honest person.