Data on 2,355 married women from the 2006 China Health and Nutrition Survey are used to study how female employment affects fertility in…
In a world of imperfect information, reputations often guide the sequential decisions to trust and to reward trust. We consider two-player…
Are China’s citizens sufficiently satisfied to reduce potential challenges to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rule? It is reasonable to…
Much of what we know about the marginal effect of pollution on infant mortality is derived from
developed country data. However, given the…
The Financial Cost of Sadness. Jennifer Lerner, November 13, 2012, Paper. “This paper hypothesizes a phenomenon—myopic misery—in which…
Today, we commemorate those who have served this country. A unified chorus of support for veterans rings throughout the land. If there is…
As temperatures drop across the East Coast, where the clean up efforts from Super Storm Sandy are ongoing, stories of resilience are…
With his dramatic victory in Tuesday’s election, President Obama must now pivot quickly to address three urgent foreign policy issues that…
Hope did not win this election for Barack Obama. Demographics did. Compared to 2008, the president lost ground with the female vote, the…
We commend the efforts of both Harvard Kennedy School students and The Crimson to highlight gender diversity and the critical need to…