I study whether exposure to teacher stereotypes, as measured by the Gender-Science Implicit Association Test, affects student achievement.…
This paper argues that the debt forgiveness provided by the U.S. consumer bankruptcy system helped stabilize employment levels during the…
In labor markets, some individuals have, or believe to have, less data on the determinants of success than others, e.g., due to…
Descriptive norms provide social information on others’ typical behaviors and have been shown to lead to prescriptive outcomes by “nudging…
As a project in Long Beach demonstrates, treating people as individuals rather than as statistics can yield big benefits.
Descriptive norms provide social information on others’ typical behaviors and have been shown to lead to prescriptive outcomes by “nudging…
The global transitional justice tool kit—involving the use of criminal prosecutions, amnesties, and other mechanisms to address past human…
This paper develops a taxonomy of political regimes that distinguishes between three sets of rights - property rights, political rights and…
The 3rd edition of Women and Men in the Informal Economy estimates that two billion (61 per cent) of the global employed population earn…
“Born into a ‘formerly untouchable manual-scavenging family in small-town India,’ Yashica Dutt was taught from a young age to not appear ‘…