The plight of the Affordable Care Act Web site has focused attention on a problem that seldom receives it — the absence of good management…
The daunting complexity of important financial decisions can lead to
procrastination. We evaluate a low-cost intervention that…
Washington, D.C. is again in the grip of its long-running budgetary soap opera. Episode 1, “Fiscal Cliffs,” was followed shortly by “…
Traditional decision theory distinguishes between risk and uncertainty. With risk, the probabilities of possible outcomes are known; with…
Whatever loathing voters feel toward Washington, D.C., it is a fair bet they make an exception for America’s national parks — immortalized…
Objectives: To assess whether the addition of a peer testimonial to an informational mailing increases conversion rates from brand name…
The miscalculations in Iraq and Afghanistan hang in the air as we weigh up whether to attack Syria. Of course, no situation is ever quite…
Differences in ethical behavior between members of the
upper and lower classes have been at the center of civic debates in
recent years…
We report results from two surveys
of representative samples of Americans with private health insurance.
The first examines how well…