It has been a while. Actually, I am not sure anyone reads this blog anymore and even if they did how they might find out about a new post. Anyhow, your economist parent blogger took some time...
http://gametheorist.blogspot.com/2018/04/a-new-shop-for-parents-whove-done-better.html
It has been a while since I have published here but today was Child No.3's Bat Mitzvah and, by tradition, I post her speech and my speech here. (Here is Child No.1 and Child No.2 ). Child No...
http://gametheorist.blogspot.com/2016/11/of-bat-mitzvahs-and-such.html
I know it has been a while since you have seen me post here. But I've been busy with teenagers. GeekDad opened up its platform to more bloggers and I am trying my hand there. My first post on d...
http://gametheorist.blogspot.com/2015/02/my-first-post-for-geekdad.html
I know it has been a while but something came up that I should link to. Here is a new paper by Matthias Doepke and Zilibotti. It argues that the choice of parenting style is itself driven by in...
http://gametheorist.blogspot.com/2014/10/actual-research-on-economics-of.html
There was an interesting article in Slate today about one kid's fight to have Happy Meals with less gender bias in their toys -- or at the very least the presumption that the toy should match t...
http://gametheorist.blogspot.com/2014/04/does-market-produce-gendered-toys.html
What happens if you take Parentonomics, you substitute an economist for a sociologist, keep the Australian mother (without changing the first name), add empirical social science, subtract eco...
http://gametheorist.blogspot.com/2014/03/parentology-parentonomics-sociology.html
I have just finished danah boyd's new book, It's Complicated: The Social Life of Networked Teens . danah was (and still is) a researcher at Microsoft Research when I was there in 2011. I didn't ...
http://gametheorist.blogspot.com/2014/02/its-not-complicated-just-chill.html
While most of the world think that Flappy Bird is fairly useless and without redeeming value, some think there is opportunity. Folks, thanks to my son, I bring you Flappy Economist . In it yo...
http://gametheorist.blogspot.com/2014/02/its-time-for-flappy-economist.html
Over at Medium I have written my take on The Lego Movie . I am not posting it here as there really are spoilers and you shouldn't read it unless you have seen the movie.
http://gametheorist.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-lego-movie.html
Last Saturday, Child No.2 celebrated his Bar Mitzvah. We are not a religious family but like Child No.1 , he elected to do it and got lots out of the process. He also managed to sing quite well ...
http://gametheorist.blogspot.com/2013/11/of-bar-mitzvahs-and-such.html
Yesterday, in a highly anticipated family event, we took our three children to see Ender’s Game. 25 years earlier Ender’s Game had been a revolutionary reading experience for me. I loved t...
http://gametheorist.blogspot.com/2013/11/enders-game-is-worth-taking-your.html
It is that time of year again where parents are invited to their school's curriculum nights. This is when they are told what the learning plan is for their kids. I have gone to these for years b...
http://gametheorist.blogspot.com/2013/09/tweeting-curriculum-night.html
In Slate, Amy Webb proudly describes the fact that they have kept all pictures and information about their daughter offline. The reason is: option value. They want their daughter to choose her ...
http://gametheorist.blogspot.com/2013/09/is-there-any-point-to-preventing-your.html
It is not every day that a new book about parenting comes out from an academic economist. This time around, however, the book was not about parenting but pre-parenting. Emily Oster, a University...
http://gametheorist.blogspot.com/2013/08/what-to-expect-from-expecting-economist.html
I don't have a lot to say about two items that appeared today on data-driven parenting. Suffice it to say, they say more about the parents than the child. That said, how can I, as an academic ec...
http://gametheorist.blogspot.com/2013/07/advances-in-data-driven-parenting.html
This article in Slate appeared this morning and soon after an email pointing to it appeared in my inbox. The sender thought the article's author, Michal Lemberger , was just baiting me. They ...
http://gametheorist.blogspot.com/2013/07/lemonade-stands-and-entrepreneurship.html
The story: Economist 1 writes a piece "Defending the 1%." Economist 2 writes a blog post criticising that article on the basis of "equality of opportunity." Economist 1 returns fire noting th...
http://gametheorist.blogspot.com/2013/06/economists-arguing-over-child-enrichment.html
Ironic punishments: Snot edition Apparently one of the behavioural challenges as a parent is to convince children to wipe snot and other related facial dirt from their face in an appropriate ma...
http://gametheorist.blogspot.com/2013/03/ironic-punishments-snot-edition.html
You know what the thing about bullying is? I don’t like it. “Great,” you are probably thinking (rolling your eyes), “this is sure going to be deep and insightful post.” But I have...
http://gametheorist.blogspot.com/2013/02/bullying-what-is-it-good-for.html
A well-known economist friend of mine wrote the following post on Facebook. It follows an algorithmic bent typical of those in my tribe so I asked for permission to post it here. > How to h...
http://gametheorist.blogspot.com/2013/02/an-allergic-story.html
My 13 year old daughter walks to school yesterday. Just before we were going to move to Canada, many people in the US told us how different those Canadians were. Now we had met many Canadian...
http://gametheorist.blogspot.com/2013/02/canadians-irrational-fear-of-snow-days.html
I have blogged about the issues of matching students in classes previously. Last night, my son had a task ... > Me: "What are you doing?" > Son: "The teacher asked me to do th...
http://gametheorist.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-classroom-seating-problem.html
I should have been paying more attention but I missed the 10th anniversary of my blogging career. It is more of a technical anniversary anyway. It started with this post on 3rd January 2003 whi...
http://gametheorist.blogspot.com/2013/01/10-years-of-blogging.html
We don't do Christmas but I do encourage my kids to take advantage of Christmas specials. So when ThinkGeek offered a 20% discount on orders over $100 my kids knew they had an opportunity. ...
http://gametheorist.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-talmudic-shipping-problem.html
Like everyone else, it has taken me some days to even begin to process the tragedy at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. There is a part of me that wonders if we ever will...
http://gametheorist.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-fear-tolerant-equilibrium.html