Affirmative action and preferential admission policies play a crucial role in fostering social mobility by bolstering the prospects of…
Low- and middle-income nations host 76 percent of the world's refugees. This study uses original data to explore within-country spatial…
We study the evolution of belief systems that suppress productive effort, including beliefs about envy, the importance of luck for success…
We use a large-scale randomized experiment to study the impact of augmenting staffing in the world’s largest public early-childhood program…
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Background: Antenatal balanced energy and protein (BEP) supplements have well-documented benefits for pregnancy outcomes. However,…
We survey the recent literature in economics measuring what is on top of people’s minds using open-ended questions. We first provide an…
My own preference is for incremental health reform rather than the teardown they advocate. This is partly based on answering a different…
I was gratified to see Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein write, “if Furman and others like him are enthusiastic about trying to build…
Purpose: This study aims to highlight the risks and threats posed by crowdfunding. It also looks at the new European Union regulation on…
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A common complaint about tax systems is that they are too complex and several countries offer simplified regimes to subsets of taxpayers.…