This is another drawing by artist Becky Moon, about her favorite Ig Nobel Prize winners. Moon has been a scholar of the Ig Nobel Prizes since she was a young teenager. This one celebrates Ig Nobel Public Economics Prize that was awarded in the year 2008 to Geoffrey Miller, Joshua Tybur and Brent Jordan of the University of New Mexico, USA, […]
Tiger Woods, the celebrated professional golfer, was in a car crash in 2020. This was his second widely-reported major smash-up. After the first crash—in 2009—economists calculated some of the economic knock-on costs to companies that had paid Woods to endorse them or their products and services. They reported details in a study: “Shareholder Value Destruction […]
According to a new paper from the Centre for Economic Policy Research, the answer is (a robust) ‘yes’. We document appearance effects in the economics profession. Using unique data on PhD graduates from ten of the top economics departments in the United States we test whether more attractive individuals are more likely to succeed. We […]
Here is the Ig Informal Lecture by the winners of the 2020 Ig Nobel Economics Prize. The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK. In the Ig Informal Lectures, some days after the ceremony, the new Ig Nobel Prize winners attempt to explain what they did, and why they did it. […]