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Everything I Ever Needed To Know About Economics I Learned From Online Dating (2014)

by Paul Oyer(Favorite Author)

3.66 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1422191656 (ISBN13: 9781422191651)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Harvard Business Review Press

review 1: As I am an over-educated person with a graduate degree, I knew most of this already, but Oyer's presentation is breezy, amusing, and clear, and his analogies are funny. As an over-educated person with a graduate degree, I especially enjoyed reading about how much a better education can add to one's dating possibilities, quality of eventual life partner, and lifetime supply of happiness as well as one's job prospects and total income.
review 2: "But just as internet daters will exaggerate less if they think they will get caught, ski resorts tell the truth more when skiers can catch their lies. The proliferation of smartphones made it possible for skiers to question snow reports in real time. One SkiReport.com user post in 2009, for example, read, 'Jackson Hole... more/Teton Village DID NOT get 15 inches today. More like 0.' This immediate feedback had an effect; Zinman and Zitzewitz show that snow report exaggeration shrank noticeably at a typical resort as iPhone reception reached that resort." (37)"There is positive assortive mating in the labor market, in that the most productive workers match with the firms that can use their skills most productively. Most notably, large firms pay their workers more than small firms do." (157)"Working with high-output partners shamed the lazy people into working harder more than working with the lazy people made the hard workers slack off." (162) less

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