The World Cup in Qatar is drawing to a close. Penalties and penalty shootouts have provided some of the biggest moments of the tournament. We analyse penalty data from the World Cup and ask what boosts the chance of scoring from the spot, with the help of Ben Lyttleton, author of Twelve Yards: The Art and Psychology of the Perfect Penalty.
Cato Daily Podcast - Time to Think Small: How Nimble Environmental Technologies Can Solve the Planet’s Biggest Problems
Todd Myers is author of Time to Think Small: How Nimble Environmental Technologies Can Solve the Planet's Biggest Problems.
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Cato Daily Podcast - Criminal Justice Reform on Behalf of Workers
Productive employment is associated with avoiding entanglement in the criminal justice system, but for those already entangled that fact may be of little comfort. Scott Lincicome explains why criminal justice reform may also be pro-worker policy reform in his chapter of Empowering the New American Worker.
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Curious City - We look at the past-and present-of tree planting in Chicago
This week we dive into the history of tree planting in Chicago, find out why trees are so important to us and our city, and talk to people who are working to get trees planted in the neighborhoods that need them most.
Curious City - We look at the past-and present-of tree planting in Chicago
This week we dive into the history of tree planting in Chicago, find out why trees are so important to us and our city, and talk to people who are working to get trees planted in the neighborhoods that need them most.
Cato Daily Podcast - Health Care and the New American Worker
Employment and health care are inextricably linked, and often that means limiting the choices of workers across the economy. Michael Cannon authored the health care chapter in Cato's new book, Empowering the New American Worker.
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60 Songs That Explain the '90s - “Ice Ice Baby”—Vanilla Ice
Rob dives into his top five all-time favorite '90s white rapper songs when looking back at the rise and fall of Vanilla Ice with his 1990 hit “Ice Ice Baby.”
Host: Rob Harvilla
Guest: Tom Breihan
Producer: Justin Sayles
Associate Producer: Jonathan Kermah
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Cato Daily Podcast - What Has Joe Biden Gotten Right on Immigration?
The President hasn't done much with respect to immigration, but there are a few bright spots. David Bier discusses the Biden record on immigration so far and a new paper on guest workers.
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Cato Daily Podcast - Occupational Licensing and the Private Market Actors Who Make the Rules
It's a clear conflict of interest when industry insiders get to control who participates in that industry, but that's exactly how occupational licensing functions. And, as Steve Slivinski of the Pacific Legal Foundation notes, it's worse than you might think.
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More or Less: Behind the Stats - Why are data so important in determining how we live?
Why are good data so important to policymakers ? whether they know it or not ? and what happens when good data is missing? Presenter Tim Harford speaks to Georgina Sturge, a statistician at the House of Commons library in London and the author of Bad Data: How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of Us Get Misled by Numbers.