We present the results of a novel early childhood intervention in which disadvantaged 3-4-year- old children were randomized to receive a new preschool and parent education program focused on cognitive and non-cognitive skills (CogX) or to a control group that did not receive preschool...

Lewitt und sein Koautor haben bereits in "Freakonomics" (ID-G 11/06) und in dem Fortsetzungsband "SuperFreakonomics - Nichts ist so wie es scheint" (ID-B 24/10) eingefahrene Denkmuster hinterfragt. Auf den Kernideen in diesen beiden Büchern bauen sie nun auf und wollen jetzt zeigen, wie sich...

"In determining the legality of online poker - a multibillion dollar industry - courts have relied heavily on the issue of whether or not poker is a game of skill. Using newly available data, we analyze that question by examining the performance in the 2010 World Series of Poker of a group of...