I study whether exposure to teacher stereotypes, as measured by the Gender-Science Implicit Association Test, affects student achievement.…
Preventing nuclear war and avoiding catastrophic climate change are two of the most basic challenges facing human civilization in the…
Virtually every activity a personundertakes on a typical day — driving to work, charging a phone, cooking dinner — contributes to carbon…
We study preferences for government action in response to layoffs resulting from different types of labor-market shocks. We consider the…
Supreme Court justices employ law clerks to help them perform their duties. We study whether these clerks influence how justices vote in…
Simulations are an excellent tool for teaching and have been used in many disciplines including in various subfields of political science,…
Scholarship on civil war is overwhelmingly preoccupied with armed activity. Data collection efforts on actors in civil wars tend to reflect…
This paper argues that the debt forgiveness provided by the U.S. consumer bankruptcy system helped stabilize employment levels during the…
People preferentially consume information that aligns with their prior beliefs, contributing to polarization and undermining democracy.…
There are economically large costs of pretrial detention—and, by extension, the use of cash bail—due to the significant collateral…