Encouraging pre-commitment to a future behavior helps people do hard things — but it can backfire
Where big investors gather, corporate wealth is reallocated away from workers
Researchers told subjects to treat their weekend like a vacation, then gauged happiness on Monday
The government’s floating rate notes feature an added measure of security: higher interest earnings in times of rising rates
Incentives boost output, but benefits level off at a fairly low point
And, for that matter, emergency room doctors, recession birthrates and job markets in which employers don’t compete much
Perceived differences between “diverse” and “sufficiently diverse”
Laws that threaten ideological preferences prompt some opponents to adopt more extreme beliefs
New approaches to spending and time-management examine how our actions do or don't influence our level of satisfaction
Buyers of private firms signal willingness to move fast
A model estimates the impact of economic variables on the pricing of prepayment risk
In Japan, speedier commutes let workers live farther from jobs, taking some pressure off high-priced housing markets
Sebastian Edwards finds Keynes’ public take-down of Roosevelt’s gold policies still relevant today
Pushing aside GDP for a measure of human well-being turns out to be very, very difficult. Ask Dan Benjamin
Large study sees increases in education, declines in public assistance
Biases around race, nation-of-origin and disability are small compared to the preference for helping the diligent