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Does cost-benefit analysis apply to catastrophic events?

October 21, 2015

The strange economics of global disasters

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How can better property rights improve the economy?

October 15, 2015

What happened when millions of Mexican farmers got the right to rent or sell their land

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Should we use subsidies to correct inattentive consumers?

October 12, 2015

Measuring attentional bias in the market for light bulbs

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Are credit constraints responsible for low interest rates?

October 1, 2015

China's young savers are creating a problem for establish economic theories

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As incomes become more unequal, are standards of living diverging too?

September 14, 2015

The debate over measuring consumption inequality

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Will health insurance mergers lead to higher premiums?

July 27, 2015

Evidence from Aetna's 1999 acquisition of Prudential Health Care

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Can retirement savings plans drive up the national debt?

July 13, 2015

Behavioral economics in the voting booth

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Can democracy combat ethnic favoritism?

July 6, 2015

Promising new evidence from data on Kenyan road construction

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Do medical bankruptcy laws affect health insurance rates?

June 29, 2015

Some people are using bankruptcy laws as a crude form of health insurance