March 12, 2013
Germany has not only successfully managed to escape the unemployment trap it was caught in for a couple of decades, […]
March 9, 2013
The U.S. budget cuts bear large economic and political risks for U.S. citizens as they will aggravate income inequality. This […]
February 20, 2013
A recent IZA Discussion Paper by Reto Odermatt and Alois Stutzer shows that smoking bans increase the happiness of smokers […]
February 20, 2013
Ask two doctors and you get two opinions, ask two economists and you get three. It often seems that professional […]
February 19, 2013
A new paper by Leandro Carvalho and Rodrigo R. Soares analyzes the members of drug-trafficking gangs in the favelas (slums) […]
February 2, 2013
The key democratic task of the press is to be a watchdog for governments and politicians. Do the media carry […]
January 27, 2013
A recent IZA working paper by Juanna Schrøter Joensen and Helena Skyt Nielsen suggests that taking more Math courses in […]