Prospects for global economic convergence under new technologies
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, developing countries appeared to be generally on a converging path with income levels in the wealthiest countries.
Research
Receptiveness to Opposing Views: Conceptualization and Integrative Review
The present article reviews a growing body of research on receptiveness to opposing views—the willingness to access, consider, and evaluate contradictory opinions in a relatively impartial manner.
Democratize Work: The Case for Reorganizing the Economy
What happens to a society—and a planet—when capitalism outgrows democracy?
The Moral Dimension of AI-Assisted Decision-Making: Some Practical Perspectives from the Front Lines
This essay takes an engineering approach to ensuring that the deployment of artificial intelligence does not confound ethical principles, even in sensitive applications like national security.
You can’t handle the truth! Conflict counterparts over-estimate each other’s feelings of self-threat
Attitude conflict—interpersonal disagreement on deeply-held, identity relevant issues—is common in personal, professional, and policy settings.
Implicit Stereotypes in Teachers' Track Recommendations
We study the relationship between teachers' stereotypes and students' high school choice in a setting where students can enroll in more or less demanding high school tracks.
Designing Supreme Court Term Limits
Since the Founding, Supreme Court Justices have enjoyed life tenure.
Horrible trade-offs in a pandemic: Poverty, fiscal space, policy, and welfare
Highlights • Fighting a pandemic in poor countries may involve not just a trade-off between lives and livelihoods, but an even more horrible trade-off between lives lost due to the pandemic and lives
Effects of demolishing abandoned buildings on firearm violence: a moderation analysis using aerial imagery and deep learning
Purpose: Demolishing abandoned buildings has been found to reduce nearby firearm violence. However, these effects might vary within cities and across time scales.
Hacking Gender Stereotypes: Girls' Participation in Coding Clubs
Who are the girls who decide to sign up for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs and coding clubs?
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