The Cost of Invading Iraq: Imponderables Meet
Uncertainties"
March 30, 2006
Do You Need a License to Earn a Living? You
Might Be Surprised at the Answer
March 2, 2006
Wait Till Next Year, but Lock in the Ticket
Price Now
February 2, 2006
New (and Sometimes Conflicting) Data on the
Value to Society of the Job Corps
January 4, 2006
Job Satisfaction Is Not Just a Matter of
Dollars
December 9, 2005
One Tempting Remedy for the Alternative
Minimum Tax Has Flaws of Its Own
November 10, 2005
Why the Tepid Response to Higher Gasoline
Prices?
October 13, 2005
At FEMA, Disasters and Politics Go Hand in Hand
September 15, 2005
Fair? Balanced? A Study Finds It Does Not
Matter
August 18, 2005
Adding Up the Oil-for-Food Payoffs
July 21, 2005
Are Collectibles the New Real Estate?
June 23, 2005
The Farm-Subsidy Model of Financing
Academia.
May 26, 2005
Economists Try to Explain Why Bubbles Happen.
April 28, 2005
Public health measures always involve
trade-offs; when considering which ones to pursue, it helps to think of
maximizing "life years.'
March 31, 2005
The
disability insurance side
of Social Security raises some questions about plans to create personal
accounts.
March 3, 2005
The U.N. aims to cut poverty in half, even as
the experts wonder how to measure it.
February 3, 2005
Doctoral Thesis Says Rich People
Spend More on Conspicuous Things
January 6, 2005
Hedge Funds Better at Managing
Data Than Managing Money
December 9, 2004
Warning: Military service can be a drain on
later earning power in civilian life.
November 11, 2004
What's the Most Cost-Effective Way to
Encourage People to Turn Out To Vote?"
October 14, 2004
New York's Economic Resilience
September 16, 2004
How to Define a Good Job.
August 19, 2004
To improve terrorism data, the U.S. should
follow the lead of economic statistics.
July 22, 2004
Until a more thorough study is done, it is
impossible to know whether private or
federal airport screeners
perform
better.
June 24, 2004
The impact of higher oil
prices
May 27, 2004
A growing number of men are not working, so
what are they doing?
April 29, 2004
A study looks at what the public knows, or
doesn't know, about economics and why.
April 1, 2004
Repairing workers' comp will be
Schwarzenegger's next big challenge.
March 4, 2004
Some lessons from Sweden on the pros and
cons of privatizing Social Security.
February 5, 2004
After 40 years, what are some results and
lessons of America's war on poverty?
January 8, 2004
A study finds benefits for localities that
offer subsidies to attract companies.
December 11, 2003
Rapid productivity growth probably did not
cause
slow post-recession job growth.
November 13, 2003
Connecting the dots from tax cuts for
the
wealthy to loss of benefits.
October 16, 2003
Pick one: The jobless rate dropped
in
August; it didn't; we don't know.
September 18, 2003
Women are less likely to negotiate, and
it
can be costly to them.
August 21, 2003
The Supreme Court finds the 'mushball middle'
on
affirmative action.
July 24, 2003
Do workers really make hay while the sun
shines, or just
clock out sooner?
June 26, 2003
Cash rewards and poverty alone do not explain
terrorism
May 29, 2003
Market forces press state colleges to rise
tuition and give financial
aid; politics presses to keep tuition
low.
May 1, 2003
What will be the model for peace in postwar Iraq
--Germany
after World War I or after World War II?
April 3, 2003
Big Federal
Deficits, Bigger Risks
March 6, 2003
Trying to
Predict a Military Victory.
February 6, 2003
A study looks at squatters and land titles in
Peru.
January 9, 2003
Sticks and stones can break bones, but the
wrong name
can
make a job hard to find.
December 12, 2002
The apple falls close to the tree, even in
the land
of
opportunity.
November 14, 2002
Music sales slump, concert ticket costs jump
and
rock fans
pay the price.
October 17, 2002
Lobbying by businesses overwhelms their
campaign
contributions.
September 19, 2002
When the economy hits a turnaround,
conspiracy theories
abound.
August 22, 2002
Accounting for bad apples: Investors in the
stock
market
render their verdicts.
July 25, 2002
Reforming the extreme labor restrictions in
Italy is no
slice of tiramisu.
June 27, 2002
In numbers we trust, provided they're safe
from
political
meddling.
May 30, 2002
A model for evaluating the use of development
dollars, south
of the border.
May 2, 2002
When it comes to income inequality, more than
just
market forces are at work.
April 4, 2002
As recovery builds, the less educated go to
the end
of the
employment line.
March 7, 2002
The president wants Americans to volunteer to
pick
up the
slack in social services. But will that be enough?
February 7, 2002
Take me out to the ballgame, but don't make
taxpayers build
the ballpark. The high cost and low benefit of sports subsidies.
January 10, 2002
To avoid terrorism, end poverty and
ignorance.
Right? Guess
again. Debunking conventional wisdom about the roots of hate
crime.
December 13, 2001
A small dose of common sense would help
Congress
break
the gridlock over airport security.
November 15, 2001
The stimulus package should fix the
unemployment
insurance
program first.
October 18, 2001
Gross domestic product vs. gross domestic
well-being.
September 20, 2001
The many faces of Adam Smith: Rediscovering
'The Wealth
of
Nations.'
August 16, 2001
There are fewer summer jobs for teenagers,
but that
might not
hurt long term.
July 19, 2001
Despite real concerns, gauging work hours is
not a
problem in
measuring productivity growth.
June 21, 2001
Pentagon pay plan shows that it doesn't
always pay
to take the
money and run.
May 24, 2001
At colleges, as elsewhere, employers'
prosperity lifts
workers'
expectations.
April 26, 2001
Legal reform is what the old Soviet bloc
needs to
put it on the
path to growth.
March 29, 2001
When it comes to cloning, social science has
to catch up with genetic science.
March 1, 2001
Seven lessons about Super Bowl ticket
prices.
February 1, 2001
Now is the time to reform unemployment
insurance -- before
it's really needed.
January 4, 2001
A study shows committees can be more than the
sum of
their
members.
December 7, 2000
Honest brokers separate policy from sausage
for the White
House.
November 9, 2000
The model doesn't quite fit Medicare drug
insurance.
October 12, 2000
Fewer workplace injuries and illnesses are
adding to
economic strength.
September 14, 2000
Vouchers for summer school could help halt
the
learning slide.
August 17, 2000
The Internet is lowering the cost of
advertising and
searching
for jobs.
July 20, 2000
Equality in hiring remains the key to civil
rights
goals.
June 22, 2000
Work visas are allowing Washington to
sidestep
immigration
reform.
May 25, 2000
Children smart enough to
get into elite schools may not
need
to bother.
April 27, 2000
A study backs up what George Foreman already
said: the
Job
Corps works.
March 30, 2000
