Consider a first-price sealed-bid auction with interdependent valuations and private budget constraints. Focusing on the two-bidder case,…
We combine a sequence of machine-learning techniques, together called Principal Smooth-Dynamics Analysis (PriSDA), to identify patterns in…
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Many developing country governments determine eligibility for anti-poverty programs using censuses of household assets. Does this distort…
Human embryos produced in labs since the 1970s have generated layers of uncertainty for law and policy: ontological, moral, and…
This paper investigates whether information about improved public services can help build trust in state institutions and move people away…
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In July 2019, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo launched a Commission on Unalienable Rights, charged with a reexamination of the scope and…
After a period of decline in interest and premature predictions of demise, industrial policy is back on the scene. A variety of trends have…
There is increasing interest in expanding Medicare health insurance coverage in the United States, but it is not clear whether the current…
There is widespread agreement among economists—and a diverse set of other policy analysts—that at least in the long run, an economy-wide…
People regularly face conflicts in which obeying one moral requirement means transgressing another. Moral conflicts require difficult…