This article responds to Loïc Wacquant's elaboration of his overarching theoretical framework in his stimulating article ‘Marginality,…
Background: Proposed payment reforms in the US healthcare system would hold providers accountable for the care delivered to an assigned…
We analyze a Massachusetts merit aid program that gives highscoring students tuition waivers at in-state public colleges with lower…
In recent decades there has been a gradual transformation in environmental policy away from command-and-control policies and toward the use…
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Two prominent challenges in nursing home care are ensuring appropriate medication use and achieving high-quality care as…
We document three remarkable features of the Opower program, in which social comparison-based home energy reports are repeatedly mailed to…
Interventions intended to change people’s behavior are ubiquitous in modern society. Some interventions produce changes in behavior that…
Using the most comprehensive developing country dataset ever compiled on air and water pollution and environmental regulations, the paper…
Unequality: Who Gets What and Why it Matters, Michael I. Norton, October 2014, Paper, Who should get what, and what are the…
Dynamic Loss Aversion, Growth, and Development, Michael Kremer, October 2014,Paper, We build a prospect-theoretic model to explain…