Economic Logic

Marijuana use is getting more and more accepted by the public and lawmakers. Indeed, many studies have shown that its effects are no worse t...

A major difference between American and other universities is the professionalization of their administration. Typically, they are managed b...

How do you get children to learn better at school? You can change the curriculum, the teachers, class size, or the administrators. You can p...

Child labor has often been described as a vicious circle. Parents have too little income to feed their family and require their children to ...

I believe that perseverance and timeliness are the secret to success, and foremost so in school. And I believe these are the qualities that ...

It is well known that girls from developing countries face hurdles in their schooling experience. This goes from subtle issues during their ...

Child labor is frowned upon because going to school is deemed essential to the development of every child, especially in terms of giving her...

How important are the preschool years for adult outcomes? Empirical evidence from rich countries mostly shows that treatments during prescho...

A lot of classes in business schools teach rather fluffy material, especially MBA classes. It is all about entertaining the students who pay...

If you do not manage to be part of the clique of "popular" people in school, or even worse are bullied, the conventional wisdom re...

I have complained before, and I am far from being the only one, that textbooks are too expensive. But we still use them because we think the...

It is commonplace to assume that corruption is bad, although the evidence is far from clear about this. Empirical investigations are typica...

If you have sat on any inter-disciplinary academic committee, you must have witnessed frustrating discussions about how one field is more us...

Universities encourage study abroad programs because it is a good experience for students to learn about others cultures (and in the case of...

It is now well established and documented that capital and labor are very poorly distributed across and within sectors in developing economi...

It is no secret that growing up with an alcoholic parent is no fun. It is even worse for single parents. How bad this is is difficult to eva...

Some children have the bad luck to be born in a poor environment or a dysfunctional family. For them, school is the great equalizer that giv...

When should universities merge? The recent examples I have witnessed were due to economic hardship, where one college could simply not meet ...

Children need sufficient sleep to grow and learn well. But every parent knows how difficult it is to get the children to get that sleep, esp...

The attitude of students towards college choice is starkly contrasted across continents. While I certainly tend to over-generalize in the fo...