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This is why the US isn't ready for automation

Economists have long argued that automation, not trade, is responsible for the bulk of the six million jobs shed by the manufacturing sector over the last 25 years. Now, they have a put a...

The economy and prescription painkillers: A deadly combination?

About 15 years ago, death rates among middle-aged white Americans stopped falling and started to climb. It was an unprecedented reversal for a modern industrialized country, and we still ...

Computers and children: should you let your kids log on?

For better or for worse, homework has gone online. Children these days conduct research on the Internet, post messages to classroom discussion boards or complete Web-based learning progra...

The relationship between GDP and life expectancy isn't as simple as you might think

Everyone wants economic growth, right? It's part of every politician's package of promises. Expanding economies make people richer, and study after study shows that the wealthier lead hap...

This well-known economist asked people to flip a coin on important life decisions

A few years ago, economist Steve Levitt embarked on one of the strangest, and arguably most megalomaniacal, experiments in history.

This is the surprising impact of starting school in the afternoon

As we continue to debate why women can’t get ahead at work — why they are less likely to be promoted, why they’re paid less than similar men in similar jobs — educators around the world h...

What working too hard can do to your health

For decades now, the modern worker has been urged to slow down, chill out, de-stress. Doctors link long shifts and on-the-job anxiety to high blood pressure, heart disease, depression and...

We’re really good at forgetting all the bad things we’ve done

In the early 2000s, psychologists at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, conducted a study on everyday dishonesty. They recruited a few hundred students, put the students into pairs...

Google’s new artificial intelligence can’t understand these sentences. Can you?

Last week, Google released Parsey McParseface, a funny name for a state-of-the-art tool aimed at one of the most difficult problems in artificial intelligence. For all that computers have...

Have we been ignoring some great news about young people?

For Americans of a certain age, recent news has been grim. In November, economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton pointed out that middle-aged whites are dying faster than they were 15 years ...

What happened when Apple CEO Tim Cook stood up for gay rights?

When Indiana and Arkansas passed their controversial “religious freedom” bills last year, gay rights groups cried out. Activists argued that these laws would effectively legalize discrimi...

Why men get all the credit when they work with women

Can quotas help tackle the confidence gender gap?