Why should developing countries buy expensive catastrophe (CAT) insurance? Abstracting from risk aversion or hedging motives, we find that…
Q&A: Lawrence Summers and Why It’s Too Early to Raise Rates. Lawrence Summers, September 16, 2015, Opinion, "Lawrence Summers, the…
Diets and Health: How Food Decisions Are Shaped by Biology, Economics, Geography, and Social Interactions. Ichiro Kawachi, September 16,…
Is the American Century over? Many seem to think so. In recent years, polls showed that in 15 of 22 countries surveyed, most respondents…
Why Ukraine’s debt deal is important not just for Ukraine, but also for the West. Lawrence Summers, September 14, 2015, Opinion. “I have…
This study describes the philanthropic environment and illuminates the important and inspirational social investments of wealthy…
DNA ancestry testing may seem frivolous, but it points to two crucial questions: First, what is the relationship, if any, between biology…
Two of the best known randomized trials in health economics are described in detail in this chapter, the RAND Health Insurance Experiment…
We distinguish between three sets of rights – property rights, political rights, and civil rights – and provide a taxonomy of political…
We begin with a typology of Americans’ understanding of the links between genetic inheritance and racial or ethnic groups. The typology has…