Introduction to The Socioeconomic Impacts of Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacted a historic toll on Americans’ health and longevity.
Research
Social Sustainability in Development: Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century
All development is about people: the transformative process to equip, link, and enable groups of people to drive change and create something new to benefit society.
The Age of Energy Insecurity: How the Fight for Resources Is Upending Geopolitics Essays
As recently as 18 months ago, many policymakers, academics, and pundits in the United States and Europe were waxing lyrical about the geopolitical benefits of the coming transition to cleaner, greener
Achieving Universal Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: Addressing Market Failures or Providing a Social Floor?
The United States spends substantially more on health care than most developed countries, yet leaves a greater share of the population uninsured.
Antiracist Institutional Change in Healthcare
Systemic racism is deeply embedded in U.S.
Activist Pressure and Firm Compliance with ESG Disclosure Policy: Experimental Evidence from the U.K. Modern Slavery Act
Many corporate ESG disclosure regulations rely on private activist pressure to enforce compliance, but relatively little is known about its effectiveness.
Why Are Young Workers Leaving Their Jobs?
The American labor market has experienced dramatic changes since the start of the global COVID-19 pandemic in the early spring of 2020, with historic job losses followed by a sharp employment recovery
Promoting gender equality in elected office
Feminist agenda-setting through transnational institutions has contributed to a shift in global norms concerning the political representation of women.
Increasing the Demand for Workers with a Criminal Record
We experimentally test several approaches to increasing the demand for workers with a criminal record on a nationwide staffing platform by addressing potential downside risk and productivity concerns.
The Design of the RAND Health Insurance Experiment: A Retrospective
This article, prepared as part of a special issue on multiarmed experiments, describes the design of the RAND Health Insurance Experiment, paying particular attention to the choice of arms.
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