That's Evidence-Based?
...One such paper aimed to provide an empirical answer to the chicken and egg question, concluding that this one came first.
What is the egg?
Economics isn’t always spooky! USAID Chief Economist Dean Karlan has an entire section of his website devoted to research conducted during this holiday.
What is Halloween?
Long layover? This airport is home to an annex of the Rijksmuseum - check it out before you Van Gogh to your next stop!
What is Schiphol Amsterdam Airport?
This is the national bird of India.
What is the peacock?
Meridian Hill Park in Columbia Heights, which was originally established in 1910, was unofficially renamed in 1969 in memory of this 20th century civil rights figure.
...measuring the force exerted when dragging a sheep across floors with various materials and with various slopes. The experiment aimed to identify ways to reduce risks in this occupation.
What is sheep shearing?
The author of a paper titled, “Macroeconomic Policy and the Optimal Destruction of” these mythical creatures notes that he is indebted to reviewers for their cryptic comments.
King Fahd International Airport in this country is the world’s largest, taking up as much space as all five boroughs of New York City.
What is Saudi Arabia?
In Harry Potter, the Lovegoods believe that this fantastical fruit has the ability to enhance one’s ability to accept the extraordinary.
What is the dirigible plum?
Calvert Avenue NW spans above Rock Creek Park linking Adams Morgan and Woodley Park via this bridge, named after this jazz legend and native Washingtonian.
Who is Duke Ellington?
Playing this wooden instrument for four months reduced daytime sleepiness in people with obstructive sleep apnea.
What is the didgeridoo?
Black, et al. find that increased fertility is positively correlated with increased income, leading the authors to conclude that children are this type of good.
What is normal?
This Caribbean island, part of the Lesser Antilles, has the world’s smallest commercial runway (only 900 feet long).
What is Saba?
Pythagoras believed that a poultice made from these seeds was a cure for scorpion stings.
What is mustard?
The longtime home of this historical figure–who is known as the “most photographed person of the 19th century”–is located in the Anacostia neighborhood east of the river.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This simple modification to participants’ footwear reduced self-reported slipperiness scores and improved confidence
What is wearing socks over shoes?
The subtitle to a paper called “Star Wars” in the AEJ: Applied, which investigates the distribution of Z-statistics in economics journals. As thrilling as Episode V!
What is "Empirics Strike Back"?
Founded by Wilbur Wright in 1909, this is the world’s oldest continually operating airport.
What is College Park Airport?
There are more than 25,000 species in this family of flowering plants. The smallest is the size of a dime, and the largest weighs several hundred pounds.
What is orchid?
This soggy portmanteau is the original name of the neighborhood that is now known as NoMA...
Taking up taxi driving in London is correlated with growth in this region of the brain, which facilitates spatial memory in the form of navigation.
What is the (posterior) hippocampus?
McEvoy et al. “tackle the hairy problem of male pattern baldness,” finding that the average balding man would spend about $30,000 to move from completely bald to a full head of hair.
What is "Willingness Toupee"?
We should all feel at home when traveling through this airport, whose airport code is OCE.
What is the Ocean City Municipal Airport?
The connection among all the preceding four clues.
What is Clue?
This malarial creek, now paved over by Constitution Avenue NW, was ambitiously named after a major river running north-south on the Italian peninsula and bisecting Rome.
What is Tiber Creek?