Daily Data Dump - October 19th, 2010

Use Cash, Not Cards, To Buy Better Food? Another of the upsides of the "pain of paying." I wonder if the effect will be transferred to debit cards as we move away from cash? Or, perhaps the effect is tied to the concreteness of a currency, and cash is just more concrete than debit cards. If you had gold ingots would there be more pain? And barter? Intelligence Makes People Think Like Economists. The preprint has been around forever, I had forgotten that Bryan Caplan was going to publish it somewhere. Whether is redounds to the reputation of the intelligent or not is your call. Climbing Obesity Rates Threaten U.S. National Security by Hampering Military Recruitment. This is getting ludicrous: "Compared with white females, black and Hispanic females are less likely to meet the weight standards, for instance, making it difficult for the military to achieve its diversity goals." Later ...