Publications

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To investigate how exposure to the 340B Drug Pricing Program influences care for patients with the two most common forms of cancer: lung and breast.

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Pluralistic ignorance—the systematic misperception of others’ attitudes—can entrench suboptimal norms, yet its dynamics remain poorly understood. We develop a mathematical model of the coevolution of actions, private attitudes, and beliefs about…

Technology has long played a central role in human development since it is a critical driver of societal progress. As such, it would seem likely that those who support technological advancement would also support societal change. However, in this…

This paper investigates the value of introducing a little flexibility into the classical n × n student-optimal stable matching (SOSM) problem. We define flexibility as the ability to relax stability constraints, and we aim to characterize the…

Using confidential Census data, we find that aggressive performance pay practices and productivity growth have combined to increase U.S. inequality. Employees at more productive firms earn higher pay at all earnings levels; similarly, when a firm…

Antitrust laws mandate review of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) that exceed an asset size threshold based on accounting standards that exclude most intangible capital. We show that this exclusion leads to thousands of intangible-intensive M…

Companies across industries face increasing pressure to assess the costs of decarbonizing their operations. This paper develops a generic model for constructing abatement cost curves in connection with carbon dioxide emissions. The resulting…

Despite the large common net benefits of climate mitigation, broad-based political consensus for large-scale policy action remains elusive. We hypothesize that financial exposure to energy stocks central to the green transition can induce…

The green transition will require large investments from firms, yet little is known about the scale and drivers of climate-related capital expenditure across the UK economy. To address this gap, we draw on a large, representative survey of UK…

As generative AI enables the creation and dissemination of information at massive scale and speed, it is increasingly important to understand how people perceive AI-generated content. One prominent policy proposal requires explicitly labeling AI-…

When debt is priced fairly, governments face a trade-off between insuring bondholders and taxpayers. If the government decides to fully insure bondholders by manufacturing risk-free debt, then it cannot insure taxpayers against permanent macro-…

On October 23, 2025, Amazon and the Value Chain Innovation Initiative at Stanford Graduate School of Business co-hosted the inaugural Supply Chain Summit, bringing together close to 50 supply chain executives and academics for a day-long…

Research shows care coordination contributes to integrated care experiences. Yet evidence from system-level initiatives is lacking. Using a survey of Veterans Health Administration (VHA) patients linked with clinical records, this nonrandomized,…

Abundant prior research has analyzed the mass public’s role in democratic backsliding. Comparatively little research has studied democratic restoration, the rehabilitation of democratic institutions following backsliding. We investigate this…

Over the years, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has exempted foreign private issuers (FPIs)—foreign companies traded on U.S. exchanges—from certain U.S. securities laws in order to attract high-quality companies from companies…

Addressing climate change depends on large-scale system changes, which require public advocacy. Here, we identified and tested 17 expert-crowdsourced theory-informed behavioral interventions designed to promote public, political, and financial…

Though teacher expectations have been researched for decades, their significance and impact remain topics of debate. Across two studies, we use methodologies designed to address common criticisms of observational research on teacher expectations…

People often want to eat healthily but fail to do so. Sometimes people try and fail to exert control over unwanted food choices. But failing to eat healthily might also happen for a different, largely ignored reason: when encountering conflict…

Previous research suggests that the effect of CEO activism depends on its alignment with stakeholders’ political ideology. We examine when and why CEO activism can enhance corporate reputation across the ideological spectrum. Integrating…