A school cellphone ban study, white collar jobs wither, and spooky candy prices - The Indicator from Planet Money

It’s … Indicators of the…Eek! (Indicators of the Week.) Our regular look at some of the most fascinating economic numbers from the news. On today’s episode: How cell phone bans in schools <a href="https://www.nber.org/papers/w34388"target="_blank" >affect grades</a>, white collar workers <a href="https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2025/aug/is-ai-contributing-unemployment-evidence-occupational-variation"target="_blank" >get the axe</a>, and AHHH! <a href="https://tcf.org/content/commentary/tricks-treats-and-tariffs-how-trump-is-making-halloween-more-expensive/"target="_blank" >Halloween candy inflation</a>! Related episodes: <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/10/29/1050569215/are-you-afraid-of-inflation"target="_blank" >Are you afraid of inflation?</a> <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/10/30/1197956399/scary-economics-dark-pools-zombie-companies"target="_blank" >A finance fright fest</a> For sponsor-f...