This week we discuss the removal of the allegedly "last" public payphone in New York. But first, I recently spoke with Professor Emily Rauscher of Brown University, about her recent paper titled "Learning to Value Girls: Balanced Infant Sex Ratios at Higher Parental Education in the United States, 1969–2018." The paper is to be published in Demography, and is co-authored by Haoming Song.

Segment 1 -- Emily Rauscher on "Learning to Value Girls: Balanced Infant Sex Ratios at Higher Parental Education in the United States, 1969–2018."

Segment 2 -- As payphones give way to wi-fi hotspots and cellphone dependence, collective goods give way to private goods whose performance in emergencies remain uncertain at best