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Incentivizing the School Commute

Photo: Mat_the_W We’ve written about bribing kids to get better grades. But what about bribing them to walk or ride their bike to school? A new working paper examines a program in Boulder, Colorado...

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High IQ in Children Linked to Drug Use Later in Life

Photo: iStockphoto A new British study has found that people who scored well on IQ tests as children are more likely to be drug users as adults, especially women. Authors James White and G. David Batty...

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Want Smarter Kids? Space Them (At Least) Two Years Apart

(iStockphoto) A new study (PDF here) by University of Notre Dame economist Kasey Buckles and graduate student Elizabeth Munnich finds that siblings spaced more than two years apart have higher reading...

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Cash Transfers: The Key to Keeping the World’s Working Kids in School?

A new paper from Eric V. Edmonds and Norbert Schady finds that cash transfer programs in developing countries may keep kids in school and out of the labor force. From the abstract: Poor women with...

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The Perils of Technology, iPad Edition

(Photo: FHKE) These days, I read a lot of books on an iPad 2 using the Kindle app. It is for the most part a very good experience, especially for recreational reading. As millions of others have noted,...

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The Mathematics of Magic

I don’t particularly like math.  I’ve never been a fan of magic either.  For some reason, however, when I heard about a new book entitled Magical Mathematics written by two first-rate mathematicians,...

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How to Get Your Kid to Do Chores

(Photo: Ruthie Hansen) There’s a new iPad app for parents to incentivize children to do chores. HighScore House! sets up a market for parents and children to assign points to chores and exchange those...

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Markets in the Air

(Photo: Christopher Doyle) I stumbled on this nifty business idea, Nanny in the Clouds, to create a market in the air for nannies. Think match.com, but for wanna-be-nannies and parents on airplanes. A...

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An Economics Lesson from Law and Order SVU

(Photo: finn) I watched a Law and Order SVU re-run last night, remarkably one that I hadn’t seen before. In the episode, an infant dies of measles contracted from another child whose parents refuse to...

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Evidence That Myopia Has a Strong Environmental Cause

Time reports on a new study on why Asians have a higher rate of nearsightedness: It has long been thought that nearsightedness is mostly a hereditary problem, but researchers led by Ian Morgan of...

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What’s Wrong With Cash for Grades? A New Marketplace Podcast

(Photo: vxla) Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast is called “What’s Wrong With Cash for Grades?” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the media player...

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Surprising New Findings on Obesity

One of the first Freakonomics Radio podcasts we made was an episode about the (surprisingly tenuous) link between obesity and health problems. A new study in The Journal of the American Medical...

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How Is Early-Childhood Intervention Like Compound Interest?

Jason Fletcher, who teaches public health at Yale, has written earlier on the connection between ADHD and crime. (The gist: “children who experience ADHD symptoms face a substantially increased...

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A Health Upside of Natural Gas

A working paper (PDF; abstract) from economists Resul Cesur, Erdal Tekin, and Aydogan Ulker explores the effects of increased natural gas use on infant mortality: In this paper, we use the variation...

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Taking on the Myths of Child Mortality

Hans Rosling, whose fantastic animated-data talks have been featured here before, has a new one about child-mortality trends: The video was timed to coincide with the release of Bill Gates‘s 2013...

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Does Child Abuse Rise During a Recession?

How do economic conditions affect the incidence of child abuse?  While researchers have found that poverty and child abuse are linked, there’s been no evidence that downturns increase abuse.  A new...

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Kids Attracted to Medical-Marijuana Candy?

(Photo: Smabs Sputzer A new paper in JAMA Pediatrics finds that a small number of children are showing up in Colorado emergency rooms having unintentionally ingested marijuana. It seems they are...

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Does Living With Children Make the Elderly Miserable?

(Photo: tacit requiem) A new working paper (gated) by Angus Deaton and Arthur A. Stone is called “Grandpa and the Snapper: the Wellbeing of the Elderly who Live with Children”: Elderly Americans who...

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Do Baby Girls Cause Divorce? A New Freakonomics Radio Podcast

(Photo: Marie Smith) Our latest Freakonomics Radio podcast is called “Do Baby Girls Cause Divorce?” (You can subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, or listen via the media player above. You can also...

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Good News for Child Obesity

We’ve blogged before about America’s rising obesity rate and how to fight it, but the battle may have just gotten a little easier. A new report from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) shows obesity...

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