Are we in control of our decisions? | Dan Ariely

Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our decisions? The author of Predictably Irrational, uses classic visual illusions and his own counterintuitive (and sometimes shocking) research findings to show...

Kehinde Ajayi: What makes a good school | Human capital and growth

Kehinde Ajayi of Boston University discusses the features that make a good school. Allowing students to make informed choices about which school to attend is key to improving educational attainment....

Pascaline Dupas: Do health subsidies help? | Human capital and growth

Pascaline Dupas of Stanford University looks at what prevent households from investing in health products that we know can save lives. Often the reason is simply poverty, however the international com...

Sharissa S. Barrow, Law & Economics Research Foundation

Sharissa S. Barrow is the Law & Economics Research Foundation 2009 Scholarly Achievement Award Recipient. She is a student at Rutgers University who recently was a part of the team that was in 2nd...

Corrado DiGuilmi and Laura Carvalho: Beyond Representative-Agent Macroeconomics

Corrado DiGuilmi and Laura Carvalho, grantees of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, have individually been exploring two possible alternative analytical entry points: mean field methods from phy...

Jeffrey Nugent: Labour market reforms, growth, and inequality | Human capital and growth

The more rigid the labour regulations, the harder it is to the firms to adjust to shocks. However, at the same time the regulations protect workers from the shocks. In this video Jeffrey Nugent, from ...

Behavioral Economics: How Do People Evaluate Risk in Everyday Situations?

Behavioral Economics: How Do People Evaluate Risk in Everyday Situations? - Professor Robin Hogarth uses a novel new methodology to demonstrate that even relatively simple measures of mood state can h...