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Why do people in high-income countries work less?

January 24, 2018

Employment rates and individual hours worked both play a role.

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Growth at the extremes

January 15, 2018

Polarization in the US job market may have begun decades earlier than previously believed.

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Making admissions more efficient

January 2, 2018

NYC reformed their high school admissions process, and it worked.

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Slowing down the population boom

December 20, 2017

How family planning efforts reduced fertility rates after World War II.

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Breaking down Brexit

December 11, 2017

Leaving the EU will cost the UK.

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A better way to feed the poor

December 6, 2017

A national nonprofit develops a more efficient system to allocate food donations.

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Wealth taxes (and how to evade them)

November 27, 2017

Sweden’s wealth tax has proven easy to avoid.

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Refusing the power to choose

November 22, 2017

Why are consumers slow to change energy providers even when they have a less expensive option?

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Use it or lose it

November 13, 2017

Expiring budgets lead to wasteful year-end spending.

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Animal sacrifice

November 8, 2017

China's collectivization movement in the 1950s is a stark example of the power of incentives.