Concerns about the breadth of the U.S. income distribution and limited intergenerational mobility have led to a focus on educational…
I study whether exposure to teacher stereotypes, as measured by the Gender-Science Implicit Association Test, affects student achievement.…
As a project in Long Beach demonstrates, treating people as individuals rather than as statistics can yield big benefits.
The global transitional justice tool kit—involving the use of criminal prosecutions, amnesties, and other mechanisms to address past human…
Throughout history, technological progress has transformed population health, but the distributional effects of these gains are unclear.…
Through the life stories of highly successful people, this book uncovers a common formula in the parenting that extraordinary achievers…
Following the attacks of 9/11, the United States adopted a policy of torturing suspected terrorists and reinterpreted its legal obligations…
Typhoid fever is an acute systemic infectious disease responsible for an estimated 12–20 million illnesses and over 150?000 deaths annually…
This chapter summarizes research in behavioral health economics, focusing on insurance markets and product markets in health care. We argue…
On the thirty-fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Orphan Drug Act (ODA), we describe the enormous changes in the markets for therapies…