The NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics brings together leading American and European economists to discuss a broad range of…
During the five years from 2003 to 2007, global perceptions of risk were unusually low, as reflected in the market pricing of sovereign…
This paper reports an experiment in 640 Indonesian villages on three approaches to target the poor: proxy means tests (PMT), where assets…
We use a randomized experiment and a structural model to test whether monitoring and financial incentives can reduce teacher absence and…
Is American Science in Decline? Alexandra A. Killewald, June 2012, Book. "Alarmists argue that the United States urgently needs more…
Assessing Uncertainty in Intelligence. Jeffrey Friedman, Richard Zeckhauser, June 2012, Paper. "This article addresses the challenge…
The Returns to Education in China: Evidence from the 1986 Compulsory Education Law. Richard Zeckhauser, June 2012, Paper. "As China…