This podcast episode with influential economist Raj Chetty spans his ground-breaking research in early childhood education, as well as any other idiosyncratic question that pops into Tyler Cowen's mind.
For other quirky economic analyses, see Cowen's blog, Marginal Revolution.
To see Chetty in action, consider joining in his online course, "Using Big Data to Solve Economic and Social Problems," run by Harvard in collaboration with Opportunity Insights.