Oct 25 How flipping a coin can actually help you change your life By Making Sen$e Editor When faced with deciding whether to make a change, people may be too cautious for their own good, a new study finds. Continue reading
Oct 17 How ‘ban the box’ policies unintentionally cause discrimination against these workers By Making Sen$e Editor A new paper concludes that ban-the-box policies actually reduce work opportunities for young, low-skilled black and Hispanic men with clean records. Continue reading
Oct 03 How a legal ivory sale increased smuggling and elephant poaching By Making Sen$e Editor The production of black market elephant ivory expanded by an estimated 66 percent following a one-time legal sale in 2008, a new study shows. Continue reading
Sep 23 Air pollution takes its toll on productivity even for those with desk jobs By Making Sen$e Editor Even in a job where employees' only physical exertion involves answering the phone, air pollution takes its toll on productivity. Continue reading
Sep 12 How banks target less savvy borrowers with visual distractions and hidden fees By Making Sen$e Editor There are substantial differences in the credit card offers that banks extend to different potential customers. Continue reading
Aug 22 Medicaid expansion under Obamacare has improved financial health of low-income Americans By Making Sen$e Editor Extension of Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act has not only shielded low-income Americans from out-of-pocket medical costs, but has also improved their overall financial health. Continue reading
Aug 12 How your social network influences housing price fluctuations By Making Sen$e Editor The housing market experiences of a person's friends can have large effects on that person's housing market beliefs and housing investment decisions, even if these friends live far away. Continue reading
Aug 08 Why life expectancy for black men fell following the infamous Tuskegee experiment By Making Sen$e Editor Disclosure of the Tuskegee syphilis study in 1972 coincided with increases in not only medical mistrust, but also mortality among black males. Continue reading
Aug 01 Why do so many investors believe trouble lies ahead? By Making Sen$e Editor Researchers find that media coverage of adverse market outcomes is correlated with investor crash beliefs. Continue reading
Jul 11 New evidence challenges conventional story of the Dust Bowl migrants By Making Sen$e Editor Huge swaths of the Southern Great Plains were devastated in this human and environmental disaster of the 1930s. But did events really unfold as the popular account suggests? New evidence challenges conventional wisdom. Continue reading