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Conventional wisdom held that housing prices couldn’t fall. But the spectacular boom and bust of the housing market during the first decade…
Long before economics turned to psychology, environmentalists were nudging and framing and pushing their cause like highly gifted amateur…
Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Great Britain and the United States Since 1850: Comment. Alexandra Killewald, August 2013,…
Accounting for Crises. Gwen Yu, August 1, 2013, Paper. "We provide one of the first empirical evidence consistent with recent macro global-…
Customer-Driven Misconduct: How Competition Corrupts Business Practices. Michael Toffel, August 2013, Paper. "Competition among firms…
The Supply of Environmentalism: Psychological Interventions and Economics. Edward Glaeser, August 2013, Paper. "Long before economics…
Neighbors and the Evolution of the Comparative Advantage of Nations: Evidence of International Knowledge Diffusion? Ricardo Hausmann,…
Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function. Sendhil Mullainathan, August 2013, Paper. "The poor often behave in less capable ways, which can…
Postmortem for a Housing Crash. Edward Glaeser, August 2013, Book Chapter. "This chapter begins with a brief review of how America's…