Modest loss of jobs followed 1966 law, but millions won substantial raises
Ricardo Perez-Truglia’s research uses relocation choices of medical residents to study feelings about relative income
Study of L.A.-area restaurants gauges effect on owners, customers, landlords
Modern-day gender ratios are linked to countries’ agricultural roots
Sebastian Edwards brings to life a widely forgotten chapter of U.S. history starring FDR, his no-name economist and the demise of the gold standard
The link between environmental stability and cultural change explains why cultures evolve
Smartphone data reveals that wait times at the polls are much longer for black people
At one bank, the cumulative effect of male bonding accounts for 39% of the gender pay gap
Biases around race, nation-of-origin and disability are small compared to the preference for helping the diligent
Caribbean plantation owners, faced with slavery’s end, enacted legal barriers to employment elsewhere
Where big investors gather, corporate wealth is reallocated away from workers
A team of experts makes the financial case that governments should spend more on nudging
History’s Encyclopédie subscribers are matched to grievances against the monarchy
Research undermines the notion that companies coldly calculate tax avoidance
In pre-World War II Germany, sports clubs became a vehicle to spread Nazism