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Anecdote: Plus-Size Shopping

When I was doing my qualitative research for my plus-size clothing blog entry that was published earlier this month, I literally could not find a single plus size person at the mall. I went to Torrid, a trendy plus-size store, and found no one shopping in the store. I then went to the plus-size department […]

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Your Happiness is like Your Height

This article shows that happiness is a random variable that is normally distributed just like height. Height follows a bell-curve, which is broad and dense in the middle and shallow at the tails. The typical normal distribution for height looks like Figure 1, below. The question is: Can happiness be inherited as well as environmental […]

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The Internet Makes Search like Word of Mouth

This article presents a puzzle. Namely, why do the internet and search engines make search more like word of mouth? I turn to the data on patents to lay out this puzzle. The patent data contains a variable called mean forward lag. Suppose Patent A is later cited by another patent, Patent B. From the […]

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Drugs and Employment

This short note documents how drug use impacts how many days an employee misses work and whether drug testing is effective in reducing the number of drug users. The first step is to show that those who use drugs in the past month are more likely to miss one or more days of work than […]

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