Just as a warm and moist environment is conducive to the spread of deadly bacteria, the worlds of politics and business especially—with their long time frames, complex outcomes, and murky cause and ef...
Karen Abbott reports that the Everleigh also offered sexual delicacies that weren’t available elsewhere—French style, for instance, commonly known today as oral sex.
La población negra resultó más perjudicada por el crack que por ninguna otra causa desde las leyes discriminatorias conocidas como Jim Crow.
Levitt admits to having the reading interests of a tweener girl, the Twilight series and Harry Potter in particular.
One teenage boy, Amcher, had been named for the first thing his parents saw upon reaching the hospital: the sign for Albany Medical Center Hospital Emergency Room.
Pensemos en ese cuento popular del zar que se enteró de que la provincia de su imperio más afectada por las enfermedades era al mismo tiempo aquella en que había más médicos. ¿Su solución? Inmediatame...
Por cada persona inteligente que se molesta en crear un esquema de incentivos, existe un ejército de gente, inteligente o no, que inevitablemente invertirá incluso más tiempo en tratar de burlarlos.
Shaw reportedly said. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
Is still common for a bride’s parents to give the groom or his family cash, cars, or real estate. The
Las políticas más exitosas son aquellas que castigan directamente el mal uso, como las sentencias a prisión obligatorias por cualquier crimen que envuelva un arma. En California y en otros lugares, ta...
Los estados con los índices de aborto más altos en la década de los setenta experimentaron los mayores descensos del crimen en los noventa, mientras que los estados con bajos índices de abortos experi...
Many Indian parents express a strong son preference.
Pesar de lo egoísta que un hombre pueda suponerse —escribió Smith—, evidentemente existen algunos principios en su naturaleza que lo llevan a interesarse por la suerte de los demás y a convertir la ne...
Rely on accumulated data rather than on individual anecdotes,
As we suggested near the beginning of this book, if morality represents an ideal world, then economics represents the actual world.
As we wrote earlier, the law of unintended consequences is among the most potent laws in existence.
As with most bad behaviors, drunk driving could probably be wiped out entirely if a strong-enough incentive were instituted—random roadblocks, for instance, where drunk drivers are executed on the spo...
Beliefs, things we hold to be true but which may not be easily verified.
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...
But a mountain of recent evidence suggests that teacher skill has less influence on a student’s performance than a completely different set of factors: namely, how much kids have learned from their pa...
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