The economists did not find a statistically significant change for these families, however.
But they should draw comfort from the knowledge that the economists involved often found it hard to understand one another.
The economists then looked at consumer spending from 1959 to 1999 and found a striking result.
Most people are not so activist by nature, the behavioral economists have found.
Even in the trade figures, however, economists found some reassurance.
The economists found that, on average, girls were 16% less likely than boys to opt for the lottery.
But other economists and some members of Congress find these views overoptimistic.
Economists repeatedly find themselves unable to distinguish good news from bad.
Armed with the data from these experiments and surveys, the economists found several interesting results.
Here, too, the two economists find that cities without riots did significantly better economically over the long run.