We evaluate why individuals invest in high-fee index funds. In our experiments, subjects each allocate $10,000 across four S&P 500…
Defaults often have a large influence on consumer decisions. We identify an overlooked but practical alternative to defaults: requiring…
Decades of
racial progress have led some researchers and policymakers to doubt
that discrimination remains an important cause of…
Book abstract: Analytical sociology is a strategy for understanding the social world. It is concerned with explaining important social…
For several decades now a debate has raged about policy-making by litigation. Spurred by the way in which tobacco, environmental, and…
We estimate the impact on pilgrims of performing the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. Our method compares successful and unsuccessful applicants…
Women face a compensation negotiation dilemma in which they have to weigh the economic benefits of asking for higher pay with the social…
We offer a dyadic perspective on gender and persistence in negotiation, focusing on the interactive effects of persister gender and…
Book abstract: The new Oxford Companion to Emotion and the Affective Sciences is an indispensable resource for all who wish to find out…
Book Abstract: Few areas have witnessed the type of growth we have seen in the affective sciences in the past decades. Across psychology,…