http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5867.html http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5867.html Here's a paper that's probably one of the original sources for the Freakonomics piece.

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5867.html http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5867.html Here's a paper that's probably one of the original sources for the Freakonomics piece. I would love to see Prize-linked savings in the US. It'd be fun to have some money sitting in an account that has powerball-esque payouts, but without the powerball-esque destruction of the original bet.