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…
This paper examines the murder of Savanna Greywind, a pregnant Native American woman in Fargo, North Dakota, in August 2017, through the…
Behaviorally-informed “nudges” are widely used in government outreach, but face criticism for being too modest to address poverty at scale…
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December 18, 2024, Paper: "Facing major fiscal and balance-of-payments headwinds, Ghana embarked on a comprehensive restructuring of its…
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…