The Growing Importance of Decision-Making on the Job
Machines increasingly replace people in routine job tasks.
Research
Experimentally Estimated Impacts of School Vouchers on Educational Attainments of Moderately and Severely Disadvantaged Students
For decades, social theorists have posited—and descriptive accounts have shown—that students isolated by both social class and ethnicity suffer extreme deprivations that limit the effectiveness of equ
COVID-19 and Fieldwork: Challenges and Solutions
This reflection article presents insights on conducting fieldwork during and after COVID-19 from a diverse collection of political scientists—from department heads to graduate students based at public
Economic Complexity Report for Western Australia
The Government of Western Australia (WA), acting through its Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD), invited the Growth Lab of the Center for International Development (CID)
The Spillover Effects of Hospital Closures on the Efficiency and Quality of Other Hospitals
Problem definition: The recent upward trend in the U.S.
Commentary on: The effects of coding intensity in Medicare advantage on plan benefits and finances
One of the more surprising health policy developments in the decade since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was enacted in 2010 has been the steady growth in the market share of the Medicare Advantage (MA
Parametric Insurance for Solar Geoengineering: Insights from the Pacific Catastrophe Risk Assessment and Financing Initiative
Solar geoengineering (SG) entails using technology to modify the Earth's radiative balance to offset some of the climate changes caused by long-lived greenhouse gases.
Beyond Porn and Discreditation: Epistemic Promises and Perils of Deepfake Technology in Digital Lifeworlds
Deepfakes are a new form of synthetic media that broke upon the world in 2017. Bringing photoshopping to video, deepfakes replace people in existing videos with someone else’s likeness.
What Three Economists Taught Us About Currency Regimes
Today, freely floating exchange rates suit most large countries better than the late economists Richard Cooper, Robert Mundell, and John Williamson thought.
Partisan selective exposure in online news consumption: evidence from the 2016 presidential campaign
Where do partisans get their election news in the contemporary media environment? We track the online news consumption of a national sample during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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