Tuesday's Assorted Links
Nudges, Inflation Reduction Act, recession dating, family vacation, recession inequality
Hi y’all! Here are 5 stories I read this week that I think you’ll also enjoy:
New research on the use of nudges finds that the past benefits may have just been capturing publication bias [The Conversation | PNAS]
Some top economists the Inflation Reduction Act will be effective at lowering inflation [CNN]
If we’re in a recession, we may not know for months [Wall Street Journal]
America’s favorite family outings are increasingly out of reach for many Americas [The Hustle]
In an unequal economy, the poor face inflation in the short term and unemployment in the long term [The New York Times]
Yesterday I wrote about how new incentives for purchasing electric vehicles might have some unintended environmental consequences:
Week 31 is over and I’m still at 30 books for the year. This past weekend I attended the Symposium on Economics Teaching, which was organized by the Journal of Economics Teaching. It’s been a busy week so I haven’t gotten to read as much as I hoped. Here’s hoping this week is better.