Economic Logic

We do males and females choose different major subjects in college? This could be because of innate abilities or because of expectations abo...

Properly measuring income inequality is difficult, and not just because figuring out income from all sources is hard. The problem is that ma...

The current stimulus spending package offers plenty of opportunities for pork-barrel, in fact one could even argue that it should be encoura...

We generally think the swing voter is in the best of all worlds: he can choose policy at will, and the policy will fit exactly his desires. ...

In Economics, several journals are suspected of been biased in favor or faculty or graduates from their hoe institution. Among the top ones ...

There is a widespread belief that the housing market is closely linked to the business cycle. In particular, housing starts are a major comp...

With the advent of online bibliographic databases like RePEc and SSRN , with the increasing importance of readership statistics in the eval...

Matching students to colleges in an optimal way is a very difficult task. This has been extensively studied, for example for medical interns...

It is well known that there is a strong correlation between the income of parents and that of their offspring. The same applies to cognitive...

When it comes to publication, economists set incredibly high standards. Compared to other fields, rejection rates are higher, editors and es...

The last two or three decades of research in macroeconomics are currently under attack, under the assumption that current research has nothi...

The Mortensen-Pissarides matching function has been a standard ingredient of any labor market model interested in the transition in and out...

Renewable energy, and in particular solar energy, is not yet as efficient as the generation of energy from exhaustible sources, such as oil,...

Terrorism has come to the forefront over the last decade, in particular with suicide missions. Suicide bombers seem to defy logic and ration...

It has become difficult to make much sense of the business cycle lately. The first puzzle was the so-called Great Moderation, as somehow bus...