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For Lobbyists, How Much Is a Senate Connection Worth?

The revolving door between Capitol Hill and Washington’s lobbying community has long been a concern, even prompting a crackdown by Barack Obama. A new paper from Jordi Blanes i Vidal, Mirko Draca and...

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Bribery Makes the World Go Round

While corruption is traditionally difficult to measure, the BBC reports that corruption worldwide may be rising. The article examines results from Transparency International’s?Global Corruption...

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Sumo: More of the Same

I can’t say that I am surprised by the latest sumo headline from The Associated Press: Japan’s scandal-tainted sport of sumo wrestling is facing new allegations that senior wrestlers used cell phones...

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Have D.C.’s “Best Schools” Been Cheating?

A USA Today investigation found what appears to be compelling evidence of teacher cheating in Washington, D.C., schools that were heralded as major successes due to test score increases.  The smoking...

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GDP of 25 U.S. corporations vs. GDP of small countries. Myopia: Nearsightedness in Americans increased 68% since the 1970s. Upper-class people have a more difficult time accurately reading the...

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A Corruption/Parking Tickets Map

Forbes‘s Jon Bruner has made a cool map of economists Raymond Fisman and Edward Miguel‘s paper “Cultures of Corruption: Evidence From Diplomatic Parking Tickets” (noted here earlier). The paper...

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Deforestation, and the Incentivized Eco-Crime of Indonesia

(Stockbyte) There are books that governments keep officially, and then there are the other books – accounts of what people are actually doing and profiting from that are never mentioned in any legal...

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Can the SEC Cut Down on Foreign Corruption?

Resource-rich developing countries have long struggled to overcome the “resource curse,” which includes a strong streak of corruption, but now they’re getting a little help from the SEC.  Here‘s Jeff...

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Chinese Corruption?

The outgoing leader of China, Hu Jintao, has made fighting corruption one of the centerpieces of his party’s agenda.  Perhaps because of that, my corruption antennae were working overtime while I was...

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A Better Way to Rank Colleges?

Amidst another scandal surrounding U.S. News and World Report’s college rankings, economists Christopher N. Avery, Mark E. Glickman, Caroline M. Hoxby, and Andrew Metrick have proposed another option:...

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Why Doesn’t the Government Fix Sporting Events?

This blog has clever readers. One of them, Corey Forbes, writes in to say: We know that point shaving, game throwing, match fixing, and referee scandals have existed in professional and college sports...

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Should Tipping Be Banned? A New Freakonomics Radio Podcast

(Photo: Aaron Stidwell) Our latest podcast is called “Should Tipping Be Banned?” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, or listen via the media player above. You can also read the...

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Should We All Just Give Cash Directly to the Poor?

Silicon Valley heavyweights like Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes and Google have a new favorite charity: GiveDirectly, an organization that makes direct transfers (via M-Pesa) to poor people in the...

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Should Tipping Be Banned?

(Photo: Aaron Stidwell) Season 4, Episode 5 The practice of tipping is one of the most irrational, un-economic behaviors we engage in. It’s not in our economic best-interest to tip; essentially we do...

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The Free Harbor Fight: Transportation Meets Chinatown

(Photo: Green Fire Productions) Unlike its natural rivals—San Diego, San Francisco, and Seattle—Los Angeles is a rotten place for a port. But that hasn’t stopped the city known for inventing and...

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Should Tipping Be Banned? A Freakonomics Radio Rebroadcast

(Photo: Aaron Stidwell) This week’s podcast is a rebroadcast of our episode called “Should Tipping Be Banned?” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, or listen via the media player...

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Have D.C.'s "Best Schools" Been Cheating?

A USA Today investigation found what appears to be compelling evidence of teacher cheating in Washington, D.C., schools that were heralded as major successes due to test score increases.  The smoking...

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FREAK-est Links

GDP of 25 U.S. corporations vs. GDP of small countries. Myopia: Nearsightedness in Americans increased 68% since the 1970s. Upper-class people have a more difficult time accurately reading the...

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A Corruption/Parking Tickets Map

Forbes‘s Jon Bruner has made a cool map of economists Raymond Fisman and Edward Miguel‘s paper “Cultures of Corruption: Evidence From Diplomatic Parking Tickets” (noted here earlier). The paper...

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Mobsters at a Sumo Match

More signs of corruption in sumo wrestling: two sumo coaches, Higonoumi and Dairyugawa,?are accused (and have been punished by the Japan Sumo Association) of providing ringside seats to mobsters....

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