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The “Stranded-on-a-Desert-Island” Series: If I could only follow 5 people on Twitter:
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The “Stranded-on-a-Desert-Island” Series: If I could only listen to 5 podcasts:
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The “Stranded-on-a-Desert-Island” Series: If I could only watch 5 TV shows.
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The “Stranded-on-a-Desert-Island” Series: If I could only read 10 websites.
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Here’s How The Season Of Your Birth Affects Your Future Health And Success
, I'm not talking about astrology. (If you're a regular reader of this blog you can guess what my feelings on astrology might be.) This connection is indirect and has to do with who has babies when: Research has found that season of birth is associated with later health and professional outcomes; what drives this association remains unclear. In this paper we consider a new explanation: that children born at different times in the year are conceived by women with…
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Is retirement lethal?
eviously I've posted on how retirement is correlated with cognitive decline. The proof keeps on rolling in: We investigate the relationship between aging, cognitive abilities and retirement using the Survey on Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), a longitudinal survey that offers the possibility of comparing several European countries using nationally representative samples of the population aged 50+. We use a version of the model proposed by Grossman (1972) as a guide for our empirical specification of the age-profile…
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What’s the secret to being a successful terrorist?
parently mom's advice applies to everything from being a doctor to being a violent extremist -- study hard in school: This paper compares the characteristics of 63 alleged homegrown Islamic terrorists in the U.S.A. to a representative sample of 1,000+ Muslim Americans. The alleged terrorists have about average level of education. Those with higher education were judged closer to succeeding. Source: "What Makes a Homegrown Terrorist? Human Capital and Participation in Domestic Islamic Terrorist Groups in the U.S.A.", Princeton University…
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How to be more disciplined:
w you time your decisions can make a big difference: How do decisions made for tomorrow or two days in the future differ from decisions made forseveral days in the future? We use data from an online grocer to address this question. In general, we find that as the delay between order completion and delivery increases, grocery customers spend less, order a higher percentage of "should" items (e.g., vegetables), and order a lower percentage of "want" items (e.g., ice cream),…
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