Mancur Olson offered us big thoughts on big subjects. Today, he might well attack the problem
of climate change and the current failure of…
We often observe that more successful efforts to establish complex state capabilities are problem driven; focused relentlessly on solving a…
Asking students to raise their hands is a time-honored feedback mechanism in education. Hand raising allows the teacher to assess to what…
Researchers seeking to establish causal relationships frequently control for
variables on the purported causal pathway, checking whether…
Partisan identity shapes social, mental, economic, and physical life. Using a novel dataset, we study the consequences of partisan identity…
Gender bias in the evaluation of job candidates has been demonstrated in business, government, and academia, yet little is known about how…
This study describes the philanthropic environment and illuminates the important and inspirational social investments of wealthy…
We study approximately 5.0 million stock picks submitted by individual users to the “CAPS” website run by the Motley Fool company (www.caps…
As Congress returns to Washington after Labor Day, the vote on the Iran nuclear deal will be its most important since the decision to go to…
Ballot initiatives are consequential and common, with total spending on initiative campaigns in the US rivaling that of Presidential…