peter klein a new item for our alfie kohn archive courtesy of joshua gans . one comment on the alleged crowdingout effect of extrinsic motivation. as i explain to my students even when behavior is intrinsically motivated extrinsic motivation can have powerful effects on the margin. for example i didnt go into academia for the money but because i love research and teaching......
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this from one of my favourite australian economics blogs game theorist . conversation in our house this evening after watching obamas speech dad can we play guitar hero no but barack obama says yes we can. and hes the president. still no. next they are going......
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i am pretty sure i am not getting any real work done today. it is just a waiting game for history. according to justin wolfers who pals around with ian ayres on the freakonomics blog the first polls will close at 11am eastern australia summer time. one of those is virginia and that will give us a big indication of how things are going. in the meantime you can read about the exper......
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baby tracker for the web and iphone trixie tracker software curious parents just like you have recorded over 1.2 million naps diapers and bottles game theorist blog on the economics of parenting musings on economics and child rearing game theorist datadriven parenting ben was a stayathome dad who recognised that lack of data in parents lives. so he build a web servic......
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jill walker professeur a luniversita de bergen en norvage chercheuse au dapartement de linguistique littarature et atudes esthatiques auteur de blogger un livre qui analyse le phanomane et blogueuse concentre ses derniares recherches sur sur la faaon dont les gens racontent des histoires en ligne. jeune maman depuis quelques mois elle vient de sinscrire a ......
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every book ive read about baby sleep apart from gina ford who already has the perfect schedule worked out for you recommends keeping track of when your baby sleeps for a few days or a week so you can see the patterns and figure out a schedule that meets your babys needs and natural inclinations. but tracking sleep on paper is a total pain even with printable charts . thank g......
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sara mosle of slate writes about traveling with her kid and doesnt feel the love for the gogo kidz travelmate which has been a staple of our family travel for over a dozen trips in three years now. its not perfect but weve never had to remove the wheels at security. they either send it through a larger machine or wand it. weve been able to forgo taking a stroller......
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every tuesday is a game theory article at mind your decisions photo credit mshades via flickr a family caught my attention in a restaurant. a young kid was keeping his parents busy. he demanded an appetizer because the main course took too long. he then passed time playing video games on his cell phone. soon he became bored again so he took out a portable dvd player. i wanted to see h.....
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a while ago dooce had a post about her decision to write about her daughter leta on the internet .aa then the game theorist had one too.a and he referred to a slate article about this very same topic.a i have a feeling that beth is going to do something similar. like most people i am ambiguous about this.a unlike dooce i dont make money from my blog does this make matters......
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joshua gans at game theorist musings on economics and child rearing blogging about disciplining his youngest child when it comes down to it this blog is a censored version of my parenting life. it is not and i do not claim it to be a full record. and when it comes to child no.3 who is soon to turn 4 the terrible twos have seemed to lasted well beyond what one would......
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my regular coauthor joshua gans has written a terrific book called parentonomics an economist dads parenting experiences. i read a draft earlier this year and loved it. he is now putting the first copy on ebay to raise money for the ms readathon. details here .......
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technorati rankings are back in business and ive recently added these blogs to my directory geary behaviour centre the blog of the centre for behaviour and health at the ucd geary institute. rigotnomics a blog by wannabe economists their words not mine of the graduate institute of international and development studies in geneva. game theorist musi......
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the quantified self is primarily about selfmonitoring and not about monitoring others. but your baby is close to the self so there may be some technology in baby monitoring to be of use to adults. trixie tracker tracks and displays the activity patterns of babies. as they claim on their website uncover patterns in your babys sleep rhythms and daily activity. develop a......
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my friend and coauthor joshua gans has two blogs. when hes not blogging about new innovations in economics on core econ hes offering new insights on parentingaat game theorist awhich has led toaa book parentonomics forthcoming in august 2008. one of my favourite of joshuas parenting suggestions is this one a few years ago while trying to teach my t......
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