Will we recover from the “happiness crash”?
Chicago Booth Review Podcast
Americans’ self-reported rates of happiness plummeted during COVID and haven’t recovered since. Will they ever? Chicago Booth’s Sam Peltzman talks about his research on happiness. Before 2020, Peltzman says, the US was a “reasonably happy country” for nearly 50 years. But in the past six years, everything has changed. So are we in a permanent happiness slump?
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When should you choose to be ignorant?
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Sometimes information is freely available and would be useful, but we choose to avoid it. Why do we do that, and does it make any sense? Chicago Booth’s Jane Risen talks about her research on willful ignorance. As small children most of us are permanently curious and never stop asking why, but older children are more likely to avoid certain information. Why is that, and is our ignorance helping or harming us?
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Why leaders should show vulnerability
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Vulnerability is typically perceived as a weakness in professional settings. Chicago Booth’s Christine Carpenter wants us to think of it as a strength when it comes to leadership. So when is it appropriate to be vulnerable? And how can you show vulnerability without coming across as out of your depth or incompetent?
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Will Salesforce and Adobe survive the SaaS Apocalypse?
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Software as a Service has boomed in recent decades, but now it faces an existential threat from AI. Chicago Booth’s Marc Knez gives us his take on the SaaS Apocalypse. Which companies will survive? Are businesses really going to stop subscribing to software applications housed in the cloud to run their businesses, and what will they do instead?
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Why the economy is now intangible
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The value of the US economy is increasingly accounted for by intangibles – things like intellectual property, brands and customer relationships. How is that changing finance and business? Chicago Booth’s Amir Sufi talks to us about the rise of the intangible economy. Should advance economies abandon the idea of reviving manufacturing, and instead continue to chase intangible value?
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Why is housing so segregated?
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Many US cities are highly racially segregated. Explicit segregation is illegal today, but some patterns of settlement haven’t fundamentally changed. So why does housing segregation persist? Chicago Booth’s Milena Almagro tells us about her research on racial housing covenants. What do the racist housing rules of the 1940s tell us about housing policy today?
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How do informal markets work?
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Much of the world’s economy is informal, with transactions taking place in street markets. How does business credit operate in that environment? Chicago Booth’s Rimmy Tomy talks about her research on the huge Iewduh bazaar in Shillong, the largest and oldest market in northeast India. Tomy finds that vendors often prefer not to share business metrics with lenders. So how do they get credit?
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Does replaying videos change how we watch them?
Chicago Booth Review Podcast
Do you ever find yourself scrolling through videos on your phone? If so, does watching the same video on repeat change the way you think about it? Chicago Booth’s Kristin Donnelly talks about her research on the “replay illusion.” Why does seeing video of spontaneous events more than once make them seem rehearsed or premeditated?
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Who Has Time to Be a “Good” Parent?
Chicago Booth Review Podcast
College-educated mothers spend about 300 more hours a year in intensive childcare than mothers with only a high school diploma, yet they enjoy it less. So what’s prompting them to spend so much time with their kids? Ariel Kalil of the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy talks about her research on the parenting time gap. All parents say that childcare is emotionally rewarding, so how can we reduce the gap in how they spend their time?
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Do you trust your bank?
Chicago Booth Review Podcast
Do you trust your bank? What would it take for you to lose that trust? Chicago Booth’s Rimmy Tomy talks about her research on trust in the financial system. It turns out that you might lose trust in your bank even if it hasn’t done anything wrong. So how should banks, regulators and customers think about the role of trust?
info_outlineCollege-educated mothers spend about 300 more hours a year in intensive childcare than mothers with only a high school diploma, yet they enjoy it less. So what’s prompting them to spend so much time with their kids? Ariel Kalil of the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy talks about her research on the parenting time gap. All parents say that childcare is emotionally rewarding, so how can we reduce the gap in how they spend their time?