Can information close socioeconomic gaps in parents’ postsecondary aspirations for their children? We administer a survey experiment to a…
January 2021, Paper: "The idea that economic theory generates “inequalities” permeates modern economics. Its implications for empirical…
January 19, 2021, Video: "Many economic-theoretic models incorporate finiteness assumptions that, while introduced for simplicity, play a…
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Expert judgments on solar geoengineering (SG) inform policy decisions and influence public opinions. We performed face-to-face interviews…
Place-specific determinants of income gaps: New sub-national evidence from Mexico - Ricardo Hausmann
January 2021, Paper: "The literature on wage gaps between Chiapas and the rest of Mexico revolves around individual factors, such as…
January 17, 2021, Paper: "Developments in capital markets have fueled a concentration of horizontal ownership across competing firms, and…
Solar radiation modification (SRM) reduces the CO2-induced change to the mean global hydrological cycle disproportionately more than it…
President-elect Joe Biden announces Center for Public Leadership director Wendy R. Sherman as his nominee for deputy secretary of state.
In job negotiations, professionals too often focus on pay and benefits and fail to think more broadly about how the opportunity will fit…
Ten years after the onset of the Arab Spring, the Middle East and North Africa are torn between two visions of progress: a democratic one…