By Laura Tropp. In thinking about Father’s Day, below is an assignment I work on with my students when thinking about families and privilege. Please add on in comments, if you would like. Read more...

By Laura Tropp. Last week it was difficult to miss the story of the Gorilla kid mom. Surely, I can see why people are drawn to the story. For the media, it’s a suspenseful story. Read more...

By Rosemarie Emanuele. In statistics, we often talk about the difference between “correlation” and “causation.” Just saying that two things are correlated does not mean that one causes the other to change. As one statistics text noted, saying that a rooster crows and then the sun rises does not mean that the rooster crowing caused the sun to rise. Read more...

By Rosemarie Emanuele. The market for electronic goods is the classic example of “decreasing costs” in Economics. This is because in this market the production of only one item, such as the first computers that were the size of a room and cost millions, gave way to the production of many more of what became a much less expensive items, such as the computers that many people hold in their cell phones and use every day. Read more...

By Rosemarie Emanuele. In Economics, it is generally the case that “supply curves” slope upwards; the higher a price for a good, the more firms will want to sell of that good. This shape extends, in part, to the shape of a supply curve for labor, with one possible caveat. Read more...