Salience, Risky Choices and Gender
Risk theories typically assume individuals make risky choices using probability weights that differ from objective probabilities. Recent theories suggest that probability weights vary depending on...
Lawyers, guns, money, chess and evidence (but with no guns and not much money).
Lawyers like their evidence to be nice and straightforward. Not to statistical. This is a real problem in some negligence cases. A surgeon might be...
Missing Link Friday – Innovation, conservatism, web 2.0 etc
Why don’t women patent? "In Why Don’t Women Patent?, a recent NBER paper, Jennifer Hunt et al. present a stark fact: Only 5.5% of the...
Economic Growth v/s distribution
In the USA (a presidential election year), there is a considerable debate on how much emphasis government policy should assign to economic growth (properly interpreted...