I just listened to a great book by renegade economist Stephen Levitt. An oldy but goody - I think it came out in 2004. He became famous for making the connection between the liberalization of abortion in 1973 and the dramatic drop in crime rates in the 1990s - claiming that future criminals had been aborted en masse.
Economists are great like that. They say things people are unwilling to say.
It also had a preplexing chapter on the black-white education and earnings gap, as well as the 8 things that parents do that have a statistical outcome on child educational performance. Some very surprising results. Stay-at-home mothering, for example, had no impact.
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