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Compensation With Currency With No Agreed Upon Value

Equity is an integral part of start-up compensation. However, employees and employers may disagree about the value of equity. Employers, for instance, may value equity higher than potential employees because they have access to better data or simply because they are more optimistic. One consequence of the disagreement between potential

Optimally Suboptimal: Behavioral-Economic Product Features

Booking travel online feels like shopping in an Indian bazaar: a deluge of options, no credible information, aggressive hawkers (“recommendations” and “targeted ads”), and hours of frantic search that end with purchasing something more out of exhaustion than conviction. Online travel booking is not unique in offering this miserable experience.

Against Complacency

Even the best placed among us are to be pitied. Human lives today are blighted by five things: 1. Limited time. While we have made impressive gains in longevity over the last 100 years, our lives are still too short. 2. Less than excellent health. Limited lifespan is further blighted

Traveling Salesman

White-collar elites venerate travel, especially to exotic and far-away places. There is some justification for the fervor—traveling is pleasant. But veneration creates an umbra that hides some truths: 1. Local travel is underappreciated. We likely underappreciate the novelty and beauty available locally. 2. Virtual travel is underappreciated. We know

Limits of Harms From Affirmative Action

Stories abound about unqualified people getting admitted to highly selective places because of quotas. But the chances are that these are merely stories with no basis in fact. If an institution is highly selective and if the number of applicants is sufficiently large, quotas are unlikely to lead to people

Missing Market for Academics

There are a few different options for buying time with industry experts, e.g., https://officehours.com/, https://intro.co/, etc. However, there is no marketplace for buying academics’ time. Some surplus is likely lost as a result. For one, some academics want advice on what they write. To get

American PII: Lapses in Securing Confidential Data

At least 83% of Americans have had their confidential data shared with a company breached (see here and here). The list of most frequently implicated companies in the loss of confidential data makes for sobering reading. Reputable companies like LinkedIn (Microsoft), Adobe, Dropbox, etc., are among the top 20 worst