When I meet people on airplanes and they find out I'm an economist, they usually ask about stock tips.

You work hard for your income, and that hard work is what fuels the economy.

As people do a task, they improve at it.

Even if you are planning a birth with an epidural, the evidence suggests that a doula can help make things go much more smoothly.

The most active period of the witchcraft trials coincides with a period of lower than average temperature known to climatologists as the "little ice age"...In a time period when the reasons for changes in weather were largely a mystery, people would have searched for a scapegoat in the face of deadly changes in weather patterns. 'Witches' became target for blame because there was an existing cultural framework that both allowed their persecution and suggested that they could control the weather.

Good household decision-making often relies on thinking about your household like a firm.

Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one.