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

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

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 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.

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

Economics works great for planning your life when you don't have a work passion, since we tend to assume that your job delivers only money and you trade off job hours with leisure hours. If you think your job will just be a job, pick one that pays well per hour and leaves you some time off, even if the activity of the job is boring.

In short, humans are programmed to get bored.