Adhering to budgeting rules shouldn't trump good decision-making.

As people do a task, they improve at it.

For many women - myself included - pregnancy brings on tremendous anxiety and confusion, along with the joy.

One of the big take-aways from a lot of economic theory is that people should engage in consumption smoothing.

The key to good decision making is evaluating the available information - the data - and combining it with your own estimates of pluses and minuses. As an economist, I do this every day.

Talking to women about birth can be polarizing.

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