Interested in grad school?

Here is an ebook (I have not read it).

Grad Skool Rulz: Everything You Need to Know about Academia from Admissions to Tenure

Ebook By Fabio Rojas

International aid and cell phones

In two of my classes (International Econ and International Trade) we discuss the problems with providing aid to countries. Here is a new one: use cell phones to give aid, avoiding some corrupting and distribution! Read more on Freakonomics.

And now divorce

We started with a link to blogs on weddings, then marriages, then children. Seems only right to follow it with divorce, on Freakonomics.

A new type of tax?

More from freakonomics.

Are children inferior goods?

Freakonomics discusses here.

Congrats Sargent and Sims!

Keep an eye out here for bibliographies to come.

On marriage

at Cheap Talk. Happy mountain day!

Rationality and a game (you can play!)

Jeff and Cheap Talk discusses rationality.

Willingness to pay for a wedding?

We can now understand consumer demand, and a bit of consumers' underlying preference. Take this to the next level: what do preferences for weddings tell us about the pricing they can expect to pay? (We will model this soon!) Freakonomics discusses this.