Despite the high level of funding and policy interest in prisoner
reentry, there is still little rigorous scientific evidence to guide…
Scholars have long recognized that public support for presidential uses of military force depends critically on elite support. Similarly,…
The notion of a “resource curse” has been most commonly applied in explaining why many countries apparently blessed with abundant reserves…
We exploit random assignment of gender quotas for leadership positions on Indian village councils to show that prior exposure to a female…
Defaults often have a large influence on consumer decisions. We identify an overlooked but practical alternative to defaults: requiring…
Much of the inequality literature has focused
on national inequality, but local inequality is also important. Crime
rates are higher in…
Decades of
racial progress have led some researchers and policymakers to doubt
that discrimination remains an important cause of…
200 nm diameter Au contacts were fabricated by e-beam lithography on sputtered thin film vanadium oxide grown on conducting substrates and…
The literature on the use of performance measurement in government has focused much attention on hypothesized unintended dysfunctional…