In a sample of 139 community residents, attitudes toward money and credit cards were found to be associated with a measure of prefrontal cortex dysfunction (FrSBe), even after controls for age, sex, education and income. The results provide support for a neuroeconomic approach to the study of...

In a sample of 72 undergraduate students at a university, purchasing textbooks online was predicted by possession of computer/Internet skills, having a retentive attitude towards money and dissatisfaction with the university bookstore.

In order to explore whether societies have a natural (nonzero) suicide rate, regression equations were derived predicting the suicide rate over the regions of 11 nations and over time in 13 nations from the divorce and unemployment rates. All of the regression equations had positive constant...

In 1975, Ehrlich published a seminal paper in American Economic Review which argued that executions prevent murders in America. Subsequent empirical studies varied in their methodology and the time-period/region/country covered, and therefore it is difficult to draw a clear conclusion about the...