Concerns about misperceptions among the public are rampant. Yet, little work explores the correlates of misperceptions in varying contexts…
To emulate the interactivity of in-person math instruction, we developed MathBot, a rulebased chatbot that explains math concepts, provides…
Jurisdictions across the country, including the federal government through its recently enacted First Step Act, have begun using…
I look at prevention through an economic lens and make three main points. First, those advocating preventive measures are often asked how…
Many Americans fail to get life-saving vaccines each year, and the availability of a vaccine for COVID-19 makes the challenge of…
Lack of trust is a key barrier to collaboration across ideological divides. Across five preregistered experiments, we find that people…
Machines increasingly replace people in routine job tasks. The remaining tasks require workers to make open-ended decisions and to have “…
This article proposes a new statistical method to measure persuasion within small groups, and applies this approach to a large-scale…
Understanding the advantages and limitations of economists’ methods clarifies the value they can add to analysis of non-economic questions…
How tech companies like Google, Airbnb, StubHub, and Facebook learn from experiments in our data-driven world—an excellent primer on…