The Price of Biodiesel RINs and Economic Fundamentals
The D4 RIN is the tradable compliance certificate for the biomass-based diesel (BBD) mandate in the renewable fuel standard (RFS).
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Identifying Sources of Inefficiency in Healthcare
In medicine, the reasons for variation in treatment rates across hospitals serving similar patients are not well understood.
Imagined Worlds: The Politics of Future-Making in the 21st Century
This book inquires into the use of prediction at the intersection of politics and academia, and reflects upon the implications of future-oriented policy-making across different fields.
Measuring the Macroeconomic Impact of Carbon Taxes
Policymakers often express concern about the impact of carbon taxes on employment or GDP.
Big Potential, Big Risks? Indian Capitalism, Economic Reform and Populism in the BJP Era
This paper reviews India’s aggregate economic performance under the Modi/BJP/NDA administration through the prism of political economy.
Constitutionalism at the Nexus of Life and Law
This essay introduces a collection of articles gathered under the theme of “law, science, and constitutions of life.” Together, they explore how revolutions in notions of what biological life is are e
Team Players: How Social Skills Improve Group Performance
Most jobs require teamwork. Are some people good team players? In this paper we design and test a new method for identifying individual contributions to group performance.
Searching for Work with a Criminal Record
People with a criminal record face substantial demand-side employment barriers that have clear implications for whether or not they search for work and what strategies they use.
The Federal Fisc
Long before the presidential primaries, or a paralyzing pandemic, Harvard Magazine asked several faculty experts to write about issues that would be shaped by the national elections, that mattered to
The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and how We Can Do it Again
In a sweeping overview of more than a century of history, drawing on his inimitable combination of statistical analysis and storytelling, Robert Putnam analyzes a remarkable confluence of trends that
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