Dr. Misty Heggeness, a professor at the University of Kansas and former Census Bureau economist, released an analysis last year showing that mothers with young children were leaving the workforce ...

Students pursuing a bachelor's degree in economics can consider roles in law, medicine, international relations, and academia. Students can choose to work at financial companies, banks, consulting ...

Learn about market failure in economics, where supply and demand imbalances lead to inefficient distribution, its types, and causes.

The latest readings on consumer sentiment are sounding alarms across the financial world. While hard data on the economy can be negative, only when consumer optimism drops do we see a decrease in ...

Markets work best when many companies vie for customers’ favour. They work badly when a few firms dominate, carving up sales between them. Economists therefore need a measure of whether markets are ...

Most Americans now accept the basic physics of climate change—that manmade greenhouse-gas emissions are raising global temperatures. Yet the public discussion of climate change is still remarkably ...