Photo: frankieleon via Flickr As I’ve noted before, parents who are against vaccinating their kids not only put their own children at risk, they put other kids at risk as well. My back-of-the-envelope estimate is that this...
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Thanksgiving Tips from the Behavioral Sciences
In a Washington Post article, an interview with Dan Ariely led to the following tips for dealing with the potential food stuffage that seems to come along with Thanksgiving: Use chopsticks (or other difficult to handle...
The Obama administration is throwing some serious behavioral economics at our country’s savings problems, reports The New York Times. The new initiatives are based on a healthy dose of simplicity and ease of use. Mr. Obama...
John Edgell, guest columnist at CQ Politics, reviews the importance of behavioral economics in the Obama White House, especially as it applies to healthcare reform: What perhaps matters more [than the daunting problems in the...
The Wall Street Journal reports a trend by employers to reduce the company match rate in 401(k) plans. The surveys varied widely in the magnitude of the fraction of employers eliminating or reducing the company match: T. Rowe...
