The Nursing Shift
A queuing model for nurse staffing can cut costs and improve patient care.
A Question of Taste
Ordinary people may have better taste in culture and the arts than their choices in consumption suggest.
Retirement Gain, without Pain
An online tool helps consumers make better retirement choices by demonstrating likely outcomes of their investment decisions.
Bad-Apple Picking
Daniel Ames contends that firms can better protect themselves from unscrupulous employees by fostering ethical norms rather than trying to identify potential troublemakers.
Who Benefits from the WTO?
The trade organization doesn’t treat rich and poor nations the same, but all members can gain from collective negotiations.
Money Can’t Buy Democracy
Contrary to a long-held assumption, prosperity does not always lead nations down the path to democracy.
India’s Growing Pains in the Global Economy
Charles Calomiris discusses India’s adaptation to participating in global markets, its challenges in sustaining growth and its rivalry with China.
When Women Rank High, Firms Profit
New research from David Gaddis Ross finds that firms benefit when they add women to their senior management teams.
Making the Grade with Mentoring
Jonah Rockoff examines data from New York City’s public schools to assess whether mentor programs — increasingly used in the private as well as the public sector — reduce employee turnover and improve productivity.