Despite great focus on and public investment in STEM education, little causal evidence connects quantitative coursework to students’…
The bulk of global inequality is accounted for by income differences across countries rather than within countries. Expanding trade with…
Subsidies in many health insurance programs depend on prices set by competing
insurers – as prices rise, so do subsidies. We study the…
A carbon tax provides certainty about the price of emissions, but it does so in a context characterized by uncertainty about its…
In 1976, United States Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger conducted a series of intricate, multiparty negotiations in Southern Africa to…
Mapping continuous raw scores from millions of Advanced Placement examinations onto the 1 to 5 integer scoring scale, we apply a regression…
The promise of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) is that evidence gathered through the evaluation of a specific program helps us—possibly…
In collaboration with the Government of Bihar, India, we conducted a large-scale
experiment to evaluate whether transparency in fiscal…
Behavioral economic research has established that defaults, one form of nudge, powerfully influence choices. In most policy contexts, all…
For decades, migration economics has stressed the effects of migration restrictions on income distribution in the host country. Recently…