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Showing posts with label Behavioural Economics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Behavioural Economics. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 11, 2023

‘I’ll take cabs but eat hawker food most days’: Millennials’ spending choices spark debate

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One millennial could spend up to S$800 monthly on Grab rides; another buys make-up using ‘buy now, pay later’ schemes. Talking Point finds o...
Saturday, January 26, 2019

Denmark's free education policy has created 'eternity students' who never graduate

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From Business Insider Chris Weller  Nov. 12, 2017 << Note Date>>  Denmark has a term for people who don't graduate in ...
Sunday, August 26, 2018

VERS announced at NDR 2018

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NDR 2018: Scheme planned to redevelop more old HDB flats before leases end CHANNELNEWSASIA By Lianne Chia   ...

What the new housing announcements mean for the HDB resale market

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By Christine Li 23 August, 2018 TODAY The multi-pronged approach that the Government outlined this past week to resolve issues regar...
Tuesday, August 14, 2018

The ineffectiveness of employer wellness programs and the importance of randomised trials

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New York Times 07 August, 2018 NEW YORK — The gold standard of medical research, the randomised controlled trial, has been taking a bit o...
Wednesday, July 11, 2018

The extreme leadership that got the Thai soccer boys out of the cave alive

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By Jena McGregor July 10 2018 The incredible rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach, the last of whom were brought to safety Tuesday af...
Monday, April 2, 2018

Commentary: Deactivate Facebook? Your online privacy depends also on your friends’ data habits

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By Vincent Mitchell, and Andrew Stephen and Bernadette Kamleitner 31 Mar 2018 The silver lining to the Cambridge Analytica case is that mor...
Friday, March 23, 2018

The scary truth that Cambridge Analytica understands

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By Ishaan Tharoor March 22 2018 Cambridge Analytica, a London-based data firm that sold its services to political campaigns, has been th...
Tuesday, November 28, 2017

At Yale, we conducted an experiment to turn conservatives into liberals. The results say a lot about our political divisions.

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Inspired Life By John Bargh November 22 2017 Washington Post When my daughter was growing up, she often wanted to rush off to do fun thi...
Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Solving the problem of overbooked flights

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Mohamed A El-Erian April 18, 2017 Given the deep mess that United Airlines created for itself after a passenger was dragged off a full fli...
Monday, February 20, 2017

Debating the real cost of drinking water

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ASIT K. BISWAS AND CECILIA TORTAJADA FEBRUARY 20, 2017 Singapore’s decision to raise water prices after 17 years is to be applauded. S...
Thursday, December 8, 2016

Why conservatives might be more likely to fall for fake news

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By Christopher Ingraham December 7 2016 This week, a North Carolina man took an AR-15 rifle into DC's Comet Ping Pong pizza restauran...
Monday, November 28, 2016

When reality bites in a 'post-truth' world

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Thinking Aloud Warren Fernandez Editor NOV 27, 2016 Spread of fake news, shorter attention span and lack of engagement leave young v...
Friday, June 24, 2016

Brexit referendum: A question both naive and necessary

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[The "Leave" votes may have it. ] Janan Ganesh June 23 2106 A decision can be reckless and unavoidable as a film can be lous...
Friday, May 13, 2016

How grade obsession harms children

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David Brooks May 13, 2016 We all know why it exists, but the grade point average (GPA) is one of the more destructive elements in Americ...
Wednesday, May 4, 2016

The choice explosion

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David Brooks May 4 2016 A few years ago, social psychologist Sheena Iyengar asked 100 American and Japanese college students to take a p...
Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Uber submits 800 COE bids, changes the game for cars

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April 16 2016 Just over three years ago, the Transport Ministry removed taxis from the certificate of entitlement (COE) bidding process to...

SDP’s Chee says he will push for retrenchment insurance if elected

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Kenneth Cheng April 17, 2016 SINGAPORE — Retrenchment insurance to help laid-off workers tide over periods of unemployment is a measure...
Monday, March 21, 2016

The Low Income Singaporeans

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[A collection of articles on low income families and profiles of some of these low income families and individuals.] The really shameful t...
Thursday, February 18, 2016

S’pore’s complex challenges defy solutions of yore

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ADRIAN W J KUAH FEBRUARY 18, 2016 The Committee on the Future Economy (CFE), announced by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong last October, i...