Yesterday the FAA grounded every domestic departure in the United States for more than four hours. Such groundings appear to be happening more often. The last nationwide grounding was in 2023, and ...

This paper investigates the role of work in providing meaning, purpose, community, and other non-monetary benefits. Using an original cross-national survey of 8,234 working-age adults across the UK, ...

Aspirations have become a common theme in empirical economics studies but there is no unified understanding of the range of outcomes they influence, the factors that shape them, and how to measure ...

Here is the audio, video, and transcript.  Here is part of the episode summary: Tyler opens by asking Terence what it feels like to contemplate Euler’s identity, quantum mechanics, the Riemann ...

It’s one of the peculiarities of American regulatory history that a natural gas pipeline can cross state lines with a single ...

That is the new and forthcoming book from Bryan Caplan, University of Chicago Press.  Excerpt: Real-world free markets deliver one broad benefit that flies under the radar of economic theory: They ...

There is a new paper by Raj Chetty, Jamie Fogel, Lawrence F. Katz, Kadeem Noray, Sonya Porter, and James Reisinger: Modern program evaluation prioritizes evidence from randomized controlled trials ...

For a while now, we have been hearing claims that social media radicalize the American electorate, and that social media damage teen mental health. Well, we just held a major set of elections that ...

There has been widespread concern about self-censorship on university campuses, and especially that conservative voices are being stifled. Using survey data from a private elite college, we show that ...