Social network approaches have much to offer for the study of African politics. This research note explores the tensions and benefits of…
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This text is a slightly edited version of the presentation I gave at UNAM. Most edits are due to the fact that the talk was accompanied by…
In mid-January, a team of scholars from the Belfer Center’s Intelligence and Managing the Atom Projects traveled to Tel Aviv, Israel to…
Disaster Probability and Options-Pricing with Disaster Risk. Robert Barro, April 2019, Paper, "We derive a new option-pricing formula from…
Equal Pay Day: closing the gender wage gap. Hannah Riley Bowles, April 1, 2019, Audio, "Today is Equal Pay Day so we’re going to spend…