During the COVID-19 pandemic, states issued and then rescinded stay-at-home orders that restricted mobility. We develop a model of learning…
A randomized experiment (N = 3,037) examines the impact of conditional and unconditional monetary incentives on response rates to a mail…
White workers experience significant advantages in the labor market both in hiring and in compensation compared to their non-white peers.…
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) affects one in ten people aged 65 or older and is the most expensive disease in the United States. We describe the…
The fast and often chaotic urbanization of the developing world generates both economic opportunity and challenges, like contagious disease…
Imagine a future in which family strengthening programs are so effective that the number of children impacted by abuse or neglect is one-…
The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) aimed to quickly deliver hundreds of billions of dollars of loans to small businesses, with the loans…
The Bay Area is a place of opportunity, but also a place of incredible inequality and deprivation. In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic was…
The label of “essential worker” reflects society’s needs but does not mean that society has compensated those workers for additional risks…