2 posts tagged Melissa Lafsky

Please Welcome … By Stephen J. Dubner … the new editor of this blog, Annika Mengisen. She comes to Freakonomics from TheStreet.com, where she was small-business editor and staff reporter. She studied journalism and fine arts at Rutgers; her current extracurriculars include boxing, small-scale theater, and serving as a rape-crisis counselor at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.

October 23, 2007 By Melissa Lafsky What steps can poor parents take to counterbalance the effects of poverty? According to Rajeev Dehejia, an economics professor at Tufts University, one answer may be to join a church.