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Category: Steven D. Levitt

Steven D. Levitt

A woman’s income appeal is a bell-shaped curve: men do not want to date low-earning women, but once a woman starts earning too much, they seem to be scared off.

economics, freakonomics, men, money, relationship, women

Steven D. Levitt

For emotion is the enemy of rational argument.

political-correctness, politics

Steven D. Levitt

Are people innately altruistic?” is the wrong kind of question to ask. People are people, and they respond to incentives. They can nearly always be manipulated–for good or ill–if only you find the right levers.

human-nature, incentives, innate, people

Steven D. Levitt

But a mountain of recent evidence suggests that teacher skill has less influence on a student’s performance than a completely different set of factors: namely, how much kids have learned from their parents, how hard they work at home, and whether the parents have instilled an appetite for education.

education, parenting

Steven D. Levitt

There are three basic flavours of incentive: economic, social and moral.

business, political-philosophy

Steven D. Levitt

But a mountain of recent evidence suggests that teacher skill has less influence on a student’s performance than a completely different set of factors: namely, how much kids have learned from their parents, how hard they work at home, and whether the parents have instilled an appetite for education.

education, parenting