How Prisons, Very Much Like Nursing Homes, Helped Spread COVID Beyond Their Walls
After a botched inmate transfer, San Quentin guards carried the virus back to their neighborhoods
Philadelphia’s Soda Tax Is Nearly Perfect for Maximizing Revenue
It’s less successful at curbing consumption so buyers shop outside the city
Household Waste Reduction Gets a Lot of Study — But Institutional Settings Are the Bigger Opportunities
Growing tension between behavioral research focused on the individual and the study of societal systems
BRCA Mutation: New Model Quantifies How Surgeries Reduce Cancer Risk
Informed by personal experience, a researcher parses data to help those mulling mastectomy and gynecological surgeries
The Sad Fact of Reminiscing About Good Times
Happy memories of life-stage transitions can be bittersweet
Head Start, the Public Preschool Program, More Than Pays for Itself
Large study sees increases in education, declines in public assistance
Mortgage Prepayments: Factors beyond Interest Rate Movements
A model estimates the impact of economic variables on the pricing of prepayment risk
Our Flawed Pursuit of Happiness — and How to Get It Right
New approaches to spending and time-management examine how our actions do or don't influence our level of satisfaction
Techies Have Chance Encounters and Brainstorm — and If They Don’t, Innovation Suffers
What your genome says about college completion, and how likely a crash is after a credit boom
Consumer Spending and Jobless Data: a Peculiar Threshold
A 12-month high in local unemployment triggers savings behavior
Impact of High-Speed Rail: Surprising Data on Real Estate Prices
In Japan, speedier commutes let workers live farther from jobs, taking some pressure off high-priced housing markets
Keynes vs. FDR: Lessons from the Great Recession
Sebastian Edwards finds Keynes’ public take-down of Roosevelt’s gold policies still relevant today
Examining the Difference Between Quality and Taste in Consumer Preferences
Laptops and TVs are based on quality, fast food and soda on taste; but some buyers defy these models, and it’s an opportunity for marketers
Faces and Earnings Estimates — and Other Quirks of Business
The true meaning of a bailout, how pay transparency works and whether to take that meeting or not
Shaming Smokers Actually Increases Their Urge to Light Up
Being stigmatized by stereotype feeds anxiety and depletes self-control
A Puzzle for US Politics: Slim Majorities in Washington, Wide Vote Margins Back Home
Improved voter targeting and the rise of nationalized campaigns may help explain this disconnect