Allocative Skill
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.
Research
What Is Distinctive about Religious Inequality? Challenges and Opportunities for Development Policy
What difference does it make, if any, both analytically and from a policy response perspective, when the basis for the type of social inequality is religious – that is, when one identifies with, or en
The Ideological Looking Glass
In her new book "Doppelganger," leftist writer and activist Naomi Klein seeks to make sense of our current political climate by exploring the “mirror world” of online conspiracy theories.
Algorithmic recommendations have limited effects on polarization: A naturalistic experiment on YouTube
An enormous body of academic and journalistic work argues that opaque recommendation algorithms contribute to political polarization by promoting increasingly extreme content.
Forgotten but not gone: A multi-state analysis of modern-day debt imprisonment
In almost every state, courts can jail those who fail to pay fines, fees, and other court debts—even those resulting from traffic or other non-criminal violations.
Fertilizer and Algal Blooms: A Satellite Approach to Assessing Water Quality
Fertilizer is critical to agricultural supply chains, but its use results in downstream externalities in the form of aquatic hypoxic zones and algal blooms.
The Political Consequences of Depression: How Conspiracy Beliefs, Participatory Inclinations, and Depression Affect Support for Political Violence
Depression can affect individuals’ attitudes by enhancing cognitive biases and altering perceptions of control.
Do Policy Schools Still Have a Point?
Reflections of a career-long public policy professor at a time of global upheaval.
The Con-Man Realism of Vivek Ramaswamy
The Republican presidential candidate’s foreign-policy platform is false advertising.
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