University of Iowa researchers have learned that animals may keep their options open even when they know a single choice will ...

Do pigeons follow the Law of Effect? A new study reveals that pigeons maintain behavioral variability even when rewarded for ...

If you were rewarded for following a particular pattern of behavior, wouldn't you keep doing it? The answer turns out to be ...

Nominal interest rates have real effects. Residential mortgages and other real world debt contracts require a sequence of constant nominal payments. Combined with payment-to-income constraints, these ...

A multi-year study of the reliability of published social & behavioral science research has found that only about half of ...

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Big Tech and Wall Street are using carrots and sticks to push apprehensive workers to boost their productivity with AI.

TO GRASP THE stakes of economic growth, start with the arithmetic of compounding. Over two generations an economy growing at about 1% a year will not even double in size; one growing at 7% will expand ...

Three new books apply an economist’s lens — and language — to some of our most unruly phenomena, including war and nature itself. By Nick Summers Nick Summers is the former Sunday Business editor at ...

Behavioral economics combines information about human behavior and outcomes with more standard methods of economic analysis. Behavioral economics has been applied in various contexts such as ...