Publications

This paper studies gun-use regulation and firearm mortality. I gather historical schedules of deer hunting season in North Carolina and Virginia and pair them with morgue records at county-day frequency. Hunters increase firearm use during deer…

While large language models (LLMs) achieve near-perfect scores on medical licensing exams, these evaluations inadequately reflect the complexity and diversity of real-world clinical practice. Here we introduce MedHELM, an extensible evaluation…

Governments around the world have recently adopted policy support programs for hydrogen, tying the level of support to the assessed carbon intensity of the hydrogen produced. Here we compare alternative carbon accounting rules for determining the…

Problem Definition: Bangladesh suffers from massive lead emissions from its circular Lead-Acid Battery (LAB)

industry. Informal smelting of scrap lead from Used Lead-Acid Batteries (ULAB) is especially emission-intensive…

Corporate governance has become a well-discussed and controversial topic among corporations, shareholders, and the general public. However, the debate over what constitutes “good governance” often lacks structure, making it difficult for…

Over four centuries, specific currencies have dominated global debt denomination. We present a liquidity-based theory that explains the centrality of the Dutch florin, British pound, and US dollar, and that rationalizes features of the…

Background

A frequent, preventable cause of diagnostic errors involves failure to follow up on…

This article reviews recent research on monetary policy transmission through banks and the broader financial intermediation sector, and its implications for financial stability. Traditional banks remain fragile due to high leverage and maturity…

Pronoun sharing has become a common inclusion practice in U.S. schools and workplaces. Drawing on normative discrimination theories, however, we predict that pronoun sharing can lead to negative evaluations of people who share nonconventional…

The time at which renewable (e.g., solar or wind) energy resources produce electricity cannot generally be controlled. In many settings, however, consumers have some flexibility in their energy consumption needs, and there is growing interest in…

Persuasion is a powerful device for shaping people’s attitudes and actions. Recent work has begun to examine who persuaders target with their persuasive efforts. The current work explores how persuaders think about intermediaries—individuals who…

Background and Objective

Long COVID (LC) refers to persistent symptoms after acute COVID-19 infection, which may persist for months or years. LC affects millions of people globally, with substantial impacts on quality of life, employment…

Purpose

Determine feasibility of estimating economic externalities associated with influences that products of individual corporations have on their customers’ health behaviors.

Design

Our methodology included four steps…

This paper studies demand, fatalities, and regulation in firearm markets. I assemble 20 years of administrative data from California, recording all licit handgun purchases and fatalities. Leveraging variation from the entry timing of firearm…

This paper studies the roles of market power and taxes in determining market surplus and social welfare in the U.S. consumer firearms industry. Using microdata from Massachusetts and aggregate data from other states, we estimate an equilibrium…

Sovereign debt yields have undergone a historic decline over the last half century. Standard explanations, including aging populations and increases in asset demand from abroad, encounter difficulties when confronted with the full range of…

People’s unwillingness to engage with others who hold views that differ from their own—in other words, their lack of receptiveness to opposing views—is a growing problem globally. We explore the possibility that something as simple as how people…