Most Read Articles of 2022
Take a moment to dive into the pieces your fellow behavioral science enthusiasts read most this year.
December 21st, 2022
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December 01st, 2022
A New Look at the History of U.S. Immigration: A Conversation with Ran Abramitzky
In their book, Streets of Gold, Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan use big data to trace the stories of immigrants to the United States. Their findings are a call to revise many popular beliefs about U.S. immigration.
Slavery and Economic Growth in the Early United States
The question that has been strenuously debated is whether slavery, integral to commerce during colonial times, was also central to the acceleration of national economic growth during the first half of the nineteenth century.
November 24th, 2022
Research Lead: Who Cheats at Wordle, the Case for ‘Critical Ignoring’, Building a Rat Utopia, and More
The Research Lead is a monthly digest connecting you to noteworthy academic and applied research from around the behavioral sciences. Here are our picks for November 2022.
August 24th, 2022
Revising America’s Immigration Myths, Past and Present
To better understand immigration to the U.S., we need to distinguish nostalgia from reality. Our data helps us do just that.
August 30th, 2021
Research Lead: Dishonest Data, Vaccine Lottery Results, Practicing Multiple Sports Makes Perfect, a History of Behavioral Economics, and More
The Research Lead is a monthly digest connecting you to noteworthy academic and applied research from around the behavioral sciences. Here are our picks for July and August 2021.
October 06th, 2017
Fifty Ways to Leave Your Economy Fundamentally Transformed
Tim Harford, better known to some as the Undercover Economist, brings the dismal science to life through brilliant storytelling and lively prose in his books, articles, and radio shows.
