We’ll be putting out a new Freakonomics Radio episode later this week on the use of RCTs (randomized controlled trials) in healthcare delivery. It features the work of the MIT economist Amy Fin...
https://freakonomics.com/2015/03/what-happens-when-poor-pregnant-women-are-given-medicaid-coverage/
Last week, we solicited your questions for DALTON CONLEY, NYU sociologist, father, and author of Parentology: Everything You Wanted to Know about the Science of Raising Children but Were Too...
https://freakonomics.com/2014/03/dalton-conley-answers-your-parentology-questions/
A new NBER working paper (abstract ; PDF ) by University of Chicago researchers SARA HELLER , HAROLD A. POLLACK , ROSEANNA ANDER , and JENS LUDWIG analyzes the effects of a Chicago program targ...
https://freakonomics.com/2013/05/a-youth-intervention-in-chicago-that-works/
Contributor Ian Ayres sees two subtle shifts in methodology between Freakonomics and SuperFreakonomics. The post A New Method to the Freakonomics Madness appeared first on Freakonomics .
https://freakonomics.com/2009/12/a-new-method-to-the-freakonomics-madness/
From the Journal of the American Medical Association, the results of a randomized controlled trial using St. John’s wort (Hypericum perforatum) to treat children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperact...
https://freakonomics.com/2008/06/st-johns-wort-does-not-seem-to-improve-adhd/
The British Medical Association calls attention to a new study in the Postgraduate Medical Journal that assesses the efficacy of individually tailored herbal medical treatments. The outcome? “T...
https://freakonomics.com/2007/10/bad-news-for-herbal-medicine/