Career stories of 50 female executives from major corporations and high-growth entrepreneurial ventures suggest two alternative accounts of…
In this article we review the literature on financial literacy, financial education, and consumer financial outcomes. We consider how…
Forgive me, but haven't we seen this movie before in the aftermath of national elections? Usually, it doesn't end well.
In the weeks since…
Though the dust from the election has barely settled — the nation has already moved on.
Consuming our attention now is the budget crisis…
Book abstract: In recent years, remarkable progress has been made in behavioral research on a wide variety of topics, from behavioral…
Traditional models of why people vote conceptualize voting as a static, self-interested
decision. This conceptualization cannot explain why…
A principal provides budgets to agents (e.g., divisions of a firm or the principal’s children) whose expenditures provide her benefits,…
Please see RWP13-010 (April 2013) for the updated version of this working paper.
In his book of a quarter-century ago, "The Cycles of American History," Arthur Schlesinger Jr. wrote that as scholars look back from a…
If New York Governor Andrew Cuomo requests $30 billion worth of federal aid to help New York rebuild after Hurricane Sandy, as he said he…