Daniel Kahneman, often in collaboration with Amos Tversky, developed foundational frameworks for understanding human decision-making.…
This paper explores the interactions between state and society in rural India within a major community-based development program. We use…
Behaviorally-informed “nudges” are widely used in government outreach, but face criticism for being too modest to address poverty at scale…
We study the classic divide-and-choose method for equitably allocating divisible goods between two players who are rational, self-…
This paper explores the nature and drivers of inequality in Chile. It is a companion paper to Lecaros et al (2023) that analyzed the…
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The Inflation Reduction Act could deliver more than $1 trillion in tax expenditures and outlays targeting clean energy deployment, but…
This paper investigates how having more White coworkers influences the subsequent retention and promotion of Black women. Studying 9,037…
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Foreign policy-makers must grapple with complexity, uncertainty, and subjectivity. As Betts (2000) puts it, these challenges raise the…
Democracy is often described in two opposite ways, as either wonderfully resilient or dangerously fragile. Both characterizations can be…
We begin by examining determinants of aggregate foreign exchange reserve holdings by central banks (size of issuing country’s economy and…