It varies across goods and services and can be blunted by monetary policy
A model examines the relationships between innovation, speculation and market values
Households with kids ages 6 to 12 feel the interruption most
Measuring inbreeding allows study to isolate rulers from circumstances
Sebastian Edwards finds Keynes’ public take-down of Roosevelt’s gold policies still relevant today
Study of a large corporation explores how salary comparisons affect employee behavior
Higher demand from U.S. and China means expanding into new markets
Using parish records, researchers examine fundamental changes in society following the French Revolution
Revisiting research on Catholic clergy sex abuse: Pennsylvania can expect fewer churchgoers and a painful decline in charitable contributions
In Japan, speedier commutes let workers live farther from jobs, taking some pressure off high-priced housing markets
Advice for researchers aims to help improve both data collection and its interpretation
Using voting records from a unique transition in the 19th-century Caribbean, Christian Dippel examines the embrace of self-interest by new legislators
Personal beliefs, especially among the less educated, often outweigh actual data
Nico Voigtländer found that to combat arbitrary taxes and corruption, merchants persuaded the king to cede control
Study finds interest in screening embryos for education propensity, especially if everyone else is doing it