economics, psychology, policy

Robustness in health research: Do differences in health measures, techniques, and time frame matter? Paul Frijters, Aydogan Ulker Journal o...

A recent quality of life survey touted by the Guardian newspaper is a perfect example of the need to look behind the statistic headline. Th...

Socrates talked about the unexamined life not being worth living. Developments in wearable data collection and feedback technologies take th...

A number of measurement issues related to the QHNS and the Live Register have been noted on this blog before . The QHNS is the official meas...

The Analytic Bridge blog describes an exercise conducted by Life Analytics where 10000 tweets containing the word economy were collected wi...

I was involved lately in a day-long session in CEMMAP in the Institute for Fiscal Studies. The session examined new measures in economics. W...

"French President Nicolas Sarkozy has asked world leaders to join a 'revolution' in the measurement of economic progress by dro...

Call for Papers On November 06-07, 2009, the Business Cycles Analysis and Survey Department of Ifo will organize a conference in Munich on t...

Does Facebook hurt your grades ? This may be the question that parents everywhere will soon be asking their children. There is the argument ...

A recent post on the Freakonomics blog links to a competition organised by the Fraser Institute which seeks proposals on what economic or ...