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Smoking bans and compensating differentials

January 31, 2022

How do workers’ wages react to a sudden improvement in conditions?

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The income gap in China

January 26, 2022

Is there a correlation between urban–rural income disparity and overall inequality?

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Fraud and the financial crisis

January 18, 2022

Were conflicts of interest the main driver behind the 2008 US housing bust?

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Making healthy practices habitual

January 3, 2022

An experiment in rural India boosted handwashing through social and financial rewards.

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2021 in Featured Charts

December 28, 2021

Economists tackled the gender wage gap, political corruption, innovation, and more.

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Horizontal growth

December 20, 2021

How do innovative companies diversify their product portfolios?

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A big push out of poverty

December 15, 2021

A program in India shows that helping the ultra poor can have long-lasting effects.

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Regressive innovation

December 6, 2021

To what extent was the opioid epidemic driven by demand?

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Patent disclosure

December 1, 2021

Does access to patent documentation spur follow-on innovation?

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Against their financial interests

November 22, 2021

How much do poor people actually support redistribution?