The promise of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) is that evidence gathered through the evaluation of a specific program helps us—possibly…
The prevalence of many urban phenomena changes systematically with population size. We propose a theory that unifies models of economic…
‘Acting Wife’: Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments. Amanda Pallais, December 2016, Paper, "Do single women avoid career…
Seeing Eye to Eye on Corporate Tax Cuts. Martin Feldstein, December 12, 2016, Opinion, "Tax reform will be the major domestic policy…
Donald Trump Should Know: This Is What Climate Change Costs Us. Cass Sunstein, December 15, 2016, Opinion, "Last week, Donald J. Trump’s…
Is There a Goldilocks Solution? “Just Right” Promotion of Labor Mobility. Lant Pritchett, December 2016, Paper, "Relaxations of rich…
Beliefs about Gender. Andrei Shleifer, December 2016, Paper, "We conduct a laboratory experiment on the determinants of beliefs about own…
Trade and Agricultural Disease: Import Restrictions in the Wake of the India – Agricultural Products Dispute. Mark Wu, December 14, 2016,…
Profit Sharing Boosts Employee Productivity and Satisfaction. Richard Freeman, December 13, 2016, Paper, "We all know that people respond…
Did declining social mobility cause Trump’s rise? In a word, no. Filipe Campante, David Yanagizawa-Drott, December 9, 2016, Opinion, "…