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What We Think About Attractive Politicians

Using pictures, voters could identify conservative politicians because attractiveness, economic success and ideology tend to correlate.

Weekly Economic News Roundup and gender equality

Labor

New Insight on the Gender Pay Gap

For some surprising reasons that contribute to the gender wage gap, there are relatively few women who are top earners in the U.S.

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: From Santa’s Salary to Holiday Spending

This week’s economic news summary includes Apple’s corporate taxes, Santa’s GDP connection, seasonal spending, the gender gap and the brain and shopping.

Everyday economics, new iPhones and conspicuous consumption.

Business

Where to Find the Biggest Gender Gap

Through worldwide gender gap indicators, we can see that Iceland can optimize productivity and human capital through a small gender gap.

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: From Area Codes to Toilets

This week’s economic news summary included looking at human capital from a health care and college perspective and at area codes as conspicuous consumption.

Economic History

Four Charts That Show Why We Should Go to College

With higher college tuition and less wage growth for college grads, still, the college wage premium and its opportunity cost make college worth it.

Economic History

Where Toilets “Take a Village”

Shown by a project in rural India, building a sanitation network that includes toilets can eliminate open defecation and the disease it creates.

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: From Venezuela’s French Fries to the Army’s Pizza

Posts Roundup Sunday 11.01.15 How to be inches away from getting hired…more Monday 11.02.15 Why one-child could be here to stay…more Tuesday 11.03.15 The army food we eat at home…more Wednesday 11.04.15 What a pizza can teach us…more Thursday 11.05.15 The tough part of deciding who…

economic news roundup and height matters

Business

Why Your Height Matters

Similar to gender and race discrimination, height discrimination can impact political success, how much we earn, and whether we are hired.

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: From Blockbuster Movies to Student Debt

This week’s economic news summary includes the transactions costs of new medical diagnostic codes, the personal and macro impact of the student loan crisis.