The initial hope for climate science was that an improved understanding of what the future might bring would lead to appropriate public…
The ideology of American lawyers has been a persistent source of discussion and debate. Two
obstacles, however, have prevented this topic…
Why are judicial nominees allowed to refuse to answer questions about important issues
that could come before the courts? We address this…
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If individuals have self-control problems, they may take up commitment
contracts that restrict their spending. We experimentally…
In this paper I sketch key episodes in the two thousand year history of interactions between society and environment that have shaped the…
From late 2010 through 2011, popular uprisings toppled authoritarian regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya. In each country, a key component…
The pollution haven hypothesis suggests that unilateral domestic climate change mitigation
policy would impose significant economic costs…
Business and human rights became an increasingly prominent feature on the international agenda in the 1990s. Global markets widened and…
We introduce a new stability concept for multi-period matching markets. Robust prescient stability asserts that agents exhibit foresight…
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A housing lottery in an Indian city provided winning slum dwellers the
opportunity to move into improved housing on the city’s periphery.…