This paper studies the roles of market power and taxes in determining market surplus and social welfare in the U.S. consumer firearms…
We evaluate two interventions designed to improve students’ postsecondary readiness, as measured by their GPA, self-reported career…
This paper explores past episodes of technological disruption in the US labor market, with the goal of learning lessons about the likely…
This paper develops a novel method to identify the causal contribution of managers to team performance. The method requires repeated random…
We study newsworthiness in theory and practice. We focus on situations in which a news outlet observes the realization of a state of the…
The Massachusetts Firearms Records Bureau recently published administrative data covering the universe of legal firearm transactions in the…
This paper analyzes an economic-epidemiological model of infectious disease where it is possible to become infected more than once and…
Large racial gaps in rigorous math coursework enrollment are a barrier to improving college completion rates and access to careers in STEM…
We investigate the efficacy of text messaging campaigns to support students with key steps in the college search, application, selection…
In a typical year, more than 2 million recent U.S. high-school graduates begin college in the fall. Students and families, in taking the…