Jobs increasingly require good decision-making. Workers are valued not only for how much they can do, but also for their ability to decide what to do. In this paper we develop a…
An enormous body of academic and journalistic work argues that opaque recommendation algorithms contribute to political polarization by promoting increasingly extreme content. We…
Human decision-makers frequently override the recommendations generated by predictive algorithms, but it is unclear whether these discretionary overrides add valuable private…
Background: Many adolescents do not receive basic preventive care such as influenza vaccinations. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) temporarily increased Medicaid reimbursements for…
The "Tutoring Online Program" (TOP), launched in Italy in 2020, is an online educational reinforcement tutoring program that offered support to high school students affected by…
Leadership positions in the U.S. are disproportionately held by graduates of a few highly selective private colleges. Could such colleges — which currently have many more students…
August 2023, Paper: "There are few economic policies that generate more kneejerk opposition from economists than industrial policy. This has not stopped governments from making…
August 4, 2023, Opinion: "In the past, economists assessing the performance of industrial policies often focused on indicators such as import tariffs, capturing only limited…
Mark Warren grew up in a family that taught him a lot of lessons. In my third interview with Warren, as I probed for details of his life, he told me that his mother had been…
In May 1981, President François Mitterrand regularized the status of undocumented immigrant workers in France. The newly legalized immigrants represented 12 percent of the non-…
