Descriptive norms provide social information on others’ typical behaviors and have been shown to lead to prescriptive outcomes by “nudging…
This article, based on my Adam Smith Lecture at the 60th NABE Annual Meeting on September 2018, takes a selective global tour of some of…
In a recent paper on the long coincident behavior of international capital flows, commodity prices, and interest rates in global financial…
Two distinct questions are of interest. (1) To what extent should the central bank be constrained, versus being allowed full discretion…
This article analyzes the trajectory and causes of the explosion of American corporate CEOs’ compensation relative to that of average…
Using data from room bookings at the Harvard Kennedy School, I find that female students volunteer significantly more than male students in…
Many developing country governments determine eligibility for anti-poverty programs using censuses of household assets. Does this distort…
If individuals become aware of their stereotypes, do they change their behavior? We study this question in the context of teachers’ bias in…
The U.S. Clean Air Act, passed in 1970 with strong bipartisan support, was the first environmental law to give the Federal government a…
Like many other states, Oregon has begun to pursue climate policies to attempt to fill the gap created by the lack of effective climate…