Higher digital and political literacy actually makes people more likely to believe fake news, not less.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
Taking a sick day triggers a chain reaction that causes your colleagues to also get sick.
Practical Magic ssrn | Apr 1
Knowing a journal editor personally increases a researcher's publication volume by 40%, even after accounting for the quality of their work.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
FinTech actually increases household income inequality in the short term before eventually reducing it.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
Giving women extra non-labor income can actually reduce their bargaining power within their own households.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
Digital 'disruption' stays incremental because institutions systematically screen out radical business models early in their development.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
In regional development, innovation follows the jobs rather than the people.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
The number of different funds holding a stock is a better predictor of its future returns than the total amount of money invested in it.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
Clinical trial embargoes, often framed as quality control measures, are actually used as 'options' to manipulate statistical results when a drug's market value is at risk.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
To achieve a truly circular economy, tax systems should treat a product's 'depreciation' as a physical flow into a waste dump, charging higher taxes on goods that break faster.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
In medical registry studies for rare conditions, a reporting error of less than 1% is enough to create fake 'statistically significant' survival differences between treatments.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
The high cost of international money transfers isn't caused by slow technology or messaging systems like SWIFT, but by a 'settlement-capacity' problem where banks must keep billions of dollars sitting idle.
Practical Magic ssrn | Apr 1
Post-tenure reviews intended to keep professors productive actually discourage them from researching controversial topics and lead to weaker new hires.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
Whether a small business gets a loan after an interest rate cut depends more on the owner's personal bank account than the quality of the business.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
The more the public pays attention to what the Central Bank is doing, the harder it becomes for the bank to control inflation.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
A county’s political leanings can now predict its mortality rate because patients have lost trust in doctors who don't share their views.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
If Americans suddenly returned to having enough children to replace the population, the national debt would actually get worse for the next 30 years.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
Changing a single word in a survey can flip the result of whether the public is 'frugal' or 'living paycheck-to-paycheck.'
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
Tech giants release free open-source software as a 'poison pill' to force competitors to stop their own research.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
Merging a store with its supplier—usually seen as a way to lower prices—actually leads to higher prices if they were already sharing revenue.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
Heavy option trading creates a feedback loop that forces market makers to buy high and sell low, turning stable markets unstable.
Nature Is Weird ssrn | Apr 1
Paying artists for AI training isn't just about fairness; if platforms don't pay, the AI will eventually 'starve' from eating its own low-quality output.
Practical Magic ssrn | Apr 1
Firms use positive financial news and press releases as a 'shield' to prevent their employees from being poached by larger competitors.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
Legally forcing a news outlet to be 'neutral' doesn't remove bias; it just forces the outlet to use 'probabilistic' reporting to manipulate audiences.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
The genetic mutations that allow Andean people to survive in thin mountain air also provide an accidental 'shield' against Type 2 Diabetes.
Nature Is Weird ssrn | Apr 1
A tiny match-fixing scandal involving only a few players can permanently depress stadium attendance for an entire sports league.
Practical Magic ssrn | Apr 1
China's 'Two-Child Policy' paradoxically caused female fund managers to significantly outperform their male colleagues.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
For crypto startups, choosing a funding structure that makes it harder for the founder to get paid is a reliable signal of high project quality.
Practical Magic ssrn | Apr 1
Subtle shifts in the writing style of mandatory SEC filings can predict a company's future stock returns even if the financial numbers haven't changed.
Practical Magic ssrn | Apr 1
Adding bike lanes only increases nearby property values if they are physically separated from cars; standard painted lanes have no impact on house prices.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
U.S. companies led by liberal-leaning executives and boards are significantly more successful at expanding into global markets than those with conservative leadership.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
Financial literacy only helps people make smarter economic predictions when they have a cash cushion; that cognitive advantage disappears the moment they face financial stress.
Nature Is Weird ssrn | Apr 1
Reducing paperwork and red tape at national borders creates as much wealth as building massive new physical highways.
Practical Magic ssrn | Apr 1
Activist judges are actually less likely to strike down laws than commonly thought; they prefer to 'bully' the state into changing them behind the scenes.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
Older workers staying healthy and working longer is creating a 'congestion effect' that prevents younger generations from advancing in their careers.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
Companies that build 'smart' products perform better if the head office leaves the AI development entirely to individual business units.
Practical Magic ssrn | Apr 1
Carbon taxes—the favorite tool of climate economists—are often less effective at cutting emissions than simply subsidizing green energy.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
Over 10% of European stock trading has moved to 'slow' auctions specifically designed to protect humans from high-speed bots.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
In emerging markets, the number of different people buying a stock is a better predictor of its success than how much money they actually spent.
Practical Magic ssrn | Apr 1
When a country's main export becomes more valuable, its currency can actually crash because investors see it as a signal to sell.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
Running a large trade deficit does not actually cause a country's manufacturing sector to shrink.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
Cutting the price of prescription drugs by nearly 30% resulted in zero increase in the number of people filling their prescriptions.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
Financial analysts are rewarded for looking smart in their reports rather than actually being right about the future.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
Threatening workers with mass layoffs causes them to stop donating to the political opposition rather than motivating them to fight back.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
The standard 'soap bubble' test used to find gas leaks in homes is unable to detect the majority of methane emissions.
Practical Magic ssrn | Apr 1
Under 'fair' climate equity rules, most wealthy nations have a carbon budget that is already a massive negative number.
Cosmic Scale ssrn | Apr 1
Environmentally friendly business practices act as a 'reliability infrastructure' that prevents bankruptcy rather than a way to increase profits.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
Rising housing costs are a primary reason why prime-aged men are dropping out of the labor force.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
Earmarking more resources for basic science is actively harmful to the progress of human longevity research.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
AI job displacement is currently 'deferred' and will likely happen all at once during the next economic crash.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
Electing female mayors significantly shifts political patronage and 'kickback' jobs toward women rather than men.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
Aggressive government crackdowns on antisemitism can actually deter Jewish students from reporting their own experiences of it.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
The political divide between rural and urban Americans is much larger than official statistics suggest because of how we define 'urban.'
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
Direct Air Capture of CO2 faces a 'thermodynamic wall' that prevents it from ever becoming cheap enough to save the planet.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
Mass AI surveillance of digital communications makes it harder, not easier, to catch actual criminals.
Practical Magic ssrn | Apr 1
Transitioning farmland into wildlife tourism zones, often hailed as a green 'win-win,' actually increases land ownership inequality.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
High-fatality mass shootings and their associated deaths in America have actually been on a slow decline for at least a century.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
Physical violence against children in Burkina Faso is actually less common in regions experiencing armed conflict and high gender inequality.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
Investors reward companies for simply talking about AI, but charge them more if they actually possess AI capabilities.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
Emperor Ashoka's legendary conversion to non-violence was likely a 'moral alibi' to mask a 20% demographic collapse of the people he conquered.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
Private firms are more likely to use currency derivatives to gamble on the market than to protect themselves from financial risk.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
Financial diversification is a mathematical illusion if all institutions use the same risk-assessment models.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
Raising interest rates to fight inflation can backfire by permanently weakening a central bank's control over its own economy.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
Even the near-total global shutdown during the COVID-19 pandemic was not enough to meet the carbon reduction goals of the Paris Agreement.
Cosmic Scale ssrn | Apr 1
Lenders can now use 'predictive insolvency' to identify that a borrower will go bankrupt before they even grant the loan.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
The legal 'meeting-competition' defense, which allows companies to match a competitor's price, actually harms consumers and reduces overall economic welfare.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
In the Norwegian child welfare system, children who experience the most 'stable' long-term residential care have the worst school-to-work transitions as adults.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
Equipping bus routes with wireless charging infrastructure is 20% cheaper over the long run than traditional plug-in charging.
Practical Magic ssrn | Apr 1
When CEOs talk optimistically about how AI will transform their company, their employees become more likely to quit.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
The most successful women entrepreneurs are significantly more likely to shut down their businesses if they experience sexual harassment, regardless of their profits.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
U.S. trade barriers designed to protect the domestic solar industry actually caused Chinese firms to massively increase their foreign investment and expansion.
Practical Magic ssrn | Apr 1
Hiring multiple competing audit firms to oversee different parts of the same organization results in higher quality audits and lower fees.
Practical Magic ssrn | Apr 1
Framing bank withdrawal incentives as 'losses' rather than 'gains' can actually prevent bank runs from happening.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
Firms may fire productive workers they actually need simply to prove that their new AI systems are working.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
Psychiatric tests for 'personality disorders' are almost entirely just measuring how poorly you get along with others rather than your actual personality.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
When local governments are pressured to hit tax revenue targets, industrial pollution in their region significantly increases.
Practical Magic ssrn | Apr 1
Human 'irrationality' is the only thing preventing AI pricing algorithms from colluding to hike prices.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
Taking low-dose aspirin occasionally for heart health is actually riskier than taking no aspirin at all.
Practical Magic ssrn | Apr 1
Safety investigations designed to find 'systemic' failures almost always end up blaming individuals because humans are easier for bureaucracies to process than complex structures.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
Cracking down on companies that invest money specifically to block their competitors actually hurts the economy by drastically reducing product variety.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
Lowering the cost of building digital products to zero does not help new entrepreneurs succeed because human attention is a finite 'hard limit' that enforces a winner-take-all market.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
The Supreme Court’s legal justification for 'mandatory' no-bail immigration detention is based on a false historical narrative that ignores a century of administrative releases.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
Modern personal bankruptcy is becoming an emotional and algorithmic phenomenon rather than a financial one.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
Efforts to make forest conservation 'participatory' often result in zero improvement for the environment or the poor, as they primarily benefit the already wealthy and educated.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
Government policies that fund "green" energy actually increase the total carbon footprint of the electricity sector.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
As financial markets grow larger and attract more investors, stock prices actually become less accurate rather than more efficient.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
The shift toward political conservatism in old age may be a physical byproduct of the brain losing its ability to rewire itself.
Nature Is Weird ssrn | Apr 1
The Supreme Court’s power to choose which cases it hears—a cornerstone of modern American law—has no actual legal basis in the way it is used today.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
Stripping unions of their power to collect mandatory fees had almost no impact on how much workers actually earn.
Practical Magic ssrn | Apr 1
AI systems actually cause organizations to pin blame for errors faster than they can understand them, rather than hiding responsibility in a 'black box.'
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Apr 1
Algorithmic content targeting may have been the underlying cause of the Silicon Valley Bank run.
Paradigm Challenge arxiv | Mar 31
The stock market frequently goes up immediately after a major bank fails.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 31
Laws designed to force companies to give workers permanent contracts actually resulted in lower wages for those workers.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 31
To stop a whole class from cheating with AI, a teacher only needs to randomly audit 2 to 4 students.
Practical Magic ssrn | Mar 31
Negative marking on exams only discourages female students when the subject is math.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 31
Giving an AI a gender or a specific role changes how the humans in the room treat each other.
Nature Is Weird ssrn | Mar 31
Pricing algorithms on Airbnb don't actually lead to higher prices for travelers.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 31
Older people and women take more antibiotics but have lower rates of drug-resistant infections.
Nature Is Weird ssrn | Mar 31