Parental involvement is correlated with student performance, though the causal relationship is less well established. This experiment…
Leadership has never played a more prominent role in America's national discourse, and yet our opinions of leaders are at all-time lows.…
Twelve years ago we stumbled into a war in Iraq with little thought as to how much it would cost or how we might pay for it. Trillions of…
We propose that people hold a belief in a favorable future (BFF), projecting that the future will change in ways advantageous to their…
We document three remarkable features of the Opower program, in which social comparison-based home energy reports are repeatedly mailed to…
Interventions intended to change people’s behavior are ubiquitous in modern society. Some interventions produce changes in behavior that…
Should political campaigns in close races communicate that they may win (over-confidence) or that they may lose (under-confidence)? In six…
To date, field experiments on campaign tactics have focused overwhelmingly on mobilization and voter turnout, with far more limited…
Reputations often guide sequential decisions to trust and to reward trust. We consider situations where each player is randomly matched…
Women and Leadership in Higher Education is the first volume in a new series of books (Women and Leadership: Research, Theory, and Practice…