Partisan identity shapes social, mental, economic, and physical life. Using a novel dataset, we study the consequences of partisan identity…
Parental involvement is correlated with student performance, though the causal relationship is less well established. This experiment…
We propose that people hold a belief in a favorable future (BFF), projecting that the future will change in ways advantageous to their…
Should political campaigns in close races communicate that they may win (over-confidence) or that they may lose (under-confidence)? In six…
The effectiveness of investment subsidies depends on the existing array of regulatory and information mandates, especially in the energy…
To date, field experiments on campaign tactics have focused overwhelmingly on mobilization and voter turnout, with far more limited…
The jobs of politically appointed executives leading U.S. federal government agencies are typically seen as being mostly about policy and…
Recent empirical work has demonstrated the importance both of educational peer effects and of various factors that affect college choices.…
This paper, written as a chapter for the forthcoming 13th edition of the case study volume, The Structure of American Industry, examines…
Whether in the domains of scholarship or practice, important advances have been made in recent years in our understanding of how culture,…