Affirmative action and preferential admission policies play a crucial role in fostering social mobility by bolstering the prospects of disadvantaged groups. In this paper, we…
Recent scholarship has documented the effects of unstable scheduling practices on worker health and well-being, but there has been less research examining the intergenerational…
Money in politics is the subject of great debate at every level of government, yet it has principally been studied at the federal level in the US. Where scholars have analyzed…
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To use the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) as reported in Paul Coverdell Stroke Registry (PCSR) to assess the accuracy of the ICD-10-based NIHSS as a…
Critics of industrial policy claim that state interventions into the market lead to inefficient subsidies, protectionism, or the “picking of winners.” Kartik Akileswaran and Rohan…
There’s growing global interest in investing in disease prevention—not just to improve health but to cut health care costs. The idea seems simple: if people eat better, exercise…
This short book, with just 202 pages of text, is an update of the author’s 2011 book, Wine Wars. Written for a general audience, it is an entertaining economic analysis of the…
March 18, 2024, Video: "This hybrid seminar was given by David Leonhardt, a senior writer for The New York Times. It was co-sponsored by the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social…
Globally, women remain underrepresented in STEM. Our lab-in-the-field study delves into parental influence on adolescents’ perceptions of scientific versus humanistic aptitude. We…
