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• Black-Market Tour Guides at Disney World

  
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  The Week (and, earlier, the N.Y. Post ) reports a new way for high-wage people to economize on time: when visiting Disney World, hire a “tour concierge” — a disabled person who uses his/her disability privileges to ignore waiting lines (and take the high-wage person and family with him/her ahead of the ...
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• A Wake-Up App That Economists Would Love

  
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  Cartoonist  Manu Cornet has a simple economic fix for oversleeping : (HT:  Hans van der Drift )
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• FREAK-est Links

  
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  A German cafe offers free coffee, but charges by the minute for seats . (HT:  David Wigram ) Harvard and the Rockefeller Foundation to offer social impact bonds in several states. In Spain, a new step in dog-waste management : unscooped poop is hand-delivered back to the owner . (HT:  Peter Kauss ) The power ...
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• Cronuts Cronuts Cronuts: The guys over at Freakonomics analyze...

  
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  The guys over at Freakonomics analyze the economic theory of the cronut craze . They discuss the existence of scalpers, ways that Dominique Ansel should (but isnt going to) take advantage of Americas cronut infatuation , and the effectiveness of trademarking Cronut™ . They also defend cro-knockoffs : "For the ...
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• Fewer Helmets, Higher Healthcare Costs

  
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  (Photo: Ben Ferenchak) We’ve written before about an unintended consequences of state repeals of motorcycle helmet laws : more organs available for transplant.  Here’s one more consequence , from Michigan, which stopped requiring helmets last year: State legislators changed the law last year so that only ...
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• President Obama Appoints Betsey Stevenson to the CEA

  
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  Some big news: the White House has recently announced that the newest member of the Council of Economic Advisers will be my favorite economist, and a long-time friend of this blog,  Betsey Stevenson .  She’ll be joining Harvard’s Jim Stock and the  newly announced  CEA Chairman, Jason Furman on the ...
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• Why Are There Cronut Scalpers?

  
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  A homemade cronut. (Photo: Arnold Gatilao) Between the din of the cicadas appearing up and down the East Coast and the media frenzy over the government’s mass surveillance programs, you might not have heard much about New Yorkers’ real obsession at the moment: the “cronut.” A cross between a croissant and a ...
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• Why Family and Business Don’t Mix: A New Marketplace Podcast

  
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  (Photo: Isabell Schulz) Our latest Freakonomics on Marketplace podcast is called “Why Family and Business Don’t Mix.” (You can download/subscribe at  iTunes , get the  RSS feed , listen via the media player above, or read the transcript .) It’s based on a recent paper by  Alberto Alesina and  ...
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• How to Skip Military Service in Iran: Give a Kidney

  
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  (Photo: yeowatzup) Iran already has one of the most  radical kidney policies in the world. Now Nobel laureate Al Roth  reports on his blog  that the country’s military is offering an incentive to boost supply: Google translate renders the headline “Donate one of your kidneys to be exempted from ...
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• Another $1,000 at Stake in the Gneezy-List Book Title Experiment

  
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  A couple weeks ago, Uri Gneezy and John List asked our blog readers to come up with titles for their new book .  And our readers did not disappoint!  There were over 400 suggestions, many of them brilliant. The authors and their editors have now narrowed it down to five choices, and they once again are asking ...
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• Does Juvenile Incarceration Act as a Deterrent?

  
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  Is putting a juvenile offender in jail a useful deterrent or one big step in the wrong direction? That’s the question asked in a new working paper ( abstract ; PDF ) by Anna Aizer and Joseph J. Doyle . It appears that the deterrence argument doesn’t hold much water: Over 130,000 juveniles are detained in ...
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• Minute-Wise, Hour-Foolish

  
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  (Photo: Dave Stokes) In my kitchen cabinet, with the richest aroma, live baggies of ground cumin, coriander, turmeric, curry powder, cinnamon, and cloves. Four feet away are their labeled spice jars. The jars are easier to use but sit mostly empty. Whenever I cook, I need the spice  now , before the main food ...
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• Does Living With Children Make the Elderly Miserable?

  
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  (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 live with people under age 18 have lower life evaluations than those who do not.  They also ...
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• “Freakonomics Ruined My Life”

  
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  An e-mail from a reader named Eric Durchholz : Too smart ? Yes and it sucks. I am smarter than everyone I know. I hate it. I had to “come out” as smart recently because for years I dumbed myself down just to be able to communicate with people. I constantly quote books and blogs and podcasts to keep from ...
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• Looking for a Long Shot: My Belmont Predictions

  
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  Over Analyze I whiffed on the Kentucky Derby and caught lightning in a bottle  at the Preakness . Let’s see if I can do it again. All eyes are on Orb and Oxbow, the winners of the first two legs of the Triple Crown.  Those two horses are likely to be heavy betting favorites in the Belmont.  And according to ...
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• An Easy Way to Cut Down on Pill Suicides?

  
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  (Photo: Sage Ross) Ezekiel Emanuel , who’s popped up in our blog and podcasts, writes in the Times about a simple way to reduce suicides: We need to make it harder to buy pills in bottles of 50 or 100 that can be easily dumped out and swallowed. We should not be selling big bottles of Tylenol and other ...
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• The Persistence of Financial Illiteracy

  
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  Annamaria Lusardi , the doyenne of financial (il)literacy reseach (she has appeared on this blog  and on Freakonomics Radio ),  is back with more depressing news.   The Wall Street Journal summarizes : In fact, Americans’ grasp of concepts such as investment risk and inflation has weakened since the ...
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• More Stories About Tipping

  
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  (Photo: Jeff Turner) Our latest podcast, “ Should Tipping Be Banned ?,” has stirred up a lot of response . Below are a few interesting e-mails from listeners. First one is from Spencer Doren : Like Levitt, tipping makes me uncomfortable. He’ll be happy to know that Sushi Yasuda (my favorite sushi in ...
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• Recommended Resources – Freakonomics

  
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  Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner About the Book Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner challenges conventional thinking by using economic analysis to uncover the underlying causes of everyday life events. ...
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• Tipwatch: Tipping: Necessary Evil or Relic That Needs to Die?

  
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  [Photo: Shutterstock ] Manresa chef/owner David Kinch recently called the practice of restaurant tipping an " antiquated slave system " that is "holding back an entire half of the industry" in an interview on the Bad Deal. And indeed, the practice can be pretty controversial; Freakonomics even did an entire ...
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