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On (speed) dating preferences (in USA): some old stereotypes reconfirmed but also some news. Here’s the full paper (Fisman et al, QJE 2006) on which the Slate article linked above is based. What’s intriguing is that another (very interesting) research based on speed dating (not published yet) done in UK finds some opposite results, though it also agrees in others. See here that paper (Belot and Francesconi, mimeo Univ of Essex) and/or a summary of their findings.
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Car preferences of faculty at Harvard. They could not detect the owners of the Porsches, but the BMWs belonged mostly to the Econ faculty (also: “Of 18 respondents in the economics department, eight said they owned luxury cars—one of the highest percentages“)… Now compare that with the Subarus owned by most faculty at other departments and tell me which Dep there has taste:-). Via Greg Mankiw.
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Some (Japanese) econometricians have time to combine their haiku and econometrics knowledge :-). Here’s one superlative result of that endeavour: “Econometrics Haiku” by Keisuke Hirano.
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A rather oldish article from The Economist; the best I’ve seen so far in describing what the recent hysteria over Romanian immigrants in Italy amounts to.
