There’s growing global interest in investing in disease prevention—not just to improve health but to cut health care costs. The idea seems simple: if people eat better, exercise…
This short book, with just 202 pages of text, is an update of the author’s 2011 book, Wine Wars. Written for a general audience, it is an entertaining economic analysis of the…
March 18, 2024, Video: "This hybrid seminar was given by David Leonhardt, a senior writer for The New York Times. It was co-sponsored by the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social…
Globally, women remain underrepresented in STEM. Our lab-in-the-field study delves into parental influence on adolescents’ perceptions of scientific versus humanistic aptitude. We…
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022 is the most significant reform to US prescription drug pricing in two decades and the first expected to result in a net reduction in…
This paper analyzes an economic-epidemiological model of infectious disease where it is possible to become infected more than once and individual agents make endogenous choices of…
In October 2019, Björn Sunesson, then the People Planning Manager at IKEA in Sweden, reached out to Daniel Schneider and Kristen Harknett, the co-directors of The Shift Project,…
We study the Tutoring Online Program (TOP), where: (i) tutoring is entirely online; (ii) tutors are volunteer university students, matched with underprivileged middle school…
The U.S.-China conflict is threatening continued global economic prosperity and this has inspired a variety of predictions and prescriptions on the future global order. This paper…
How do media portrayals of potential policy beneficiaries’ identities sway public support for these policies in a public health setting? Using a pre-registered vignette experiment…
