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Political identity, preference, and persuasion
The current research examines how political identity shapes preferences for objects and messages that highlight either equality or hierarchy. We find that liberals show a greater preference for an object associated with less as opposed to more…
Radical Decentralization: Does community driven development work?
Classic arguments for decentralization, augmented by ideas about how participation empowers the poor, motivate the widely used approach in foreign aid called community-driven development (CDD). CDD devolves control over the…
Reimagining the ED: Ideas for Shaping the Emergency Department of the Future
The Facility Guidelines Institute (FGI), a not-for-profit corporation founded in 1998, seeks to gather perspectives on challenges facing patients and clinicians in clinical spaces from which ideas can be gleaned to focus further research and…
A Simple Way to Maximize the Number of Hits From Ballistic Imaging When Processing Capacity is Limited
Many U.S. organizations lack the resources to enter all cartridge cases from crime scenes and test-fires into the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network and search for hits. This paper summarizes the main question in (1): if ballistic…
Social Movement Theory’s Contribution to Understanding Activism around Corporations and Markets
This chapter traces the development of research on social movement outcomes or consequences over three distinct phases, with an eye toward understanding how this research has impacted organizational studies research on how social movements impact…
Stable Predictions across Unknown Environments
In many important machine learning applications, the training distribution used to learn a probabilistic classifier differs from the testing distribution on which the classifier will be used to make predictions. Traditional methods correct the…
Supply Disruptions and Optimal Network Structures
This paper studies multi-tier supply chain networks in the presence of disruption risk. Firms decide how to source their inputs from upstream suppliers so as to maximize their expected profits, and prices of intermediate goods are set so that…
Sustaining Smallholders and Rainforests by Eliminating Payment Delay in a Commodity Supply Chain---It Takes a Village
Millions of poor smallholder farmers produce global commodities,
often through illegal deforestation. Multinational commodity buyers have
committed to halt illegal deforestation and improve farmers’ livelihoods in
their…
The Competitive Facility Location Problem in a Duopoly: Advances Beyond Trees
We consider a competitive facility location problem on a network, in which consumers are located on the vertices and wish to connect to the nearest facility. Knowing this, competitive players locate their facilities on vertices that capture the…
The Divergent Effects of Diversity Ideologies for Race and Gender Relations
Both practitioners and scholars have shown interest in initiatives that reduce bias and promote inclusion. Diversity ideologies—or beliefs and practices regarding how to approach group differences in diverse settings—have been studied as one set…
The Effect of Economic Consequences on Social Judgment and Choice: Reward Interdependence and the Preference for Sociability versus Competence
Journal of Organizational Behavior, in press
Competence and sociability (warmth) are fundamental dimensions of social judgment in organizations. However, these qualities are frequently seen as negatively related, with mixed…
The Motivation Toolkit
Getting your employees to do their best work has never been easy. But it is a particular challenge for knowledge workers, who must attend to many different tasks and whose to-do list is often ambiguous, requiring outside-the-box thinking. Lists…
What Did 1 Trillion Euros Buy Us? Evidence on the Real Effects of Quantitative Easing in Europe
This paper studies the transmission channels of the European Central Bank’s (ECB) asset purchase programs via the banking sector using proprietary data from the Bank of Portugal. Banks that hold larger amounts of assets eligible for ECB purchase…
Who Punishes Extremist Nominees? Candidate Ideology and Turning Out the Base in U.S. Elections
Political observers, campaign experts, and academics alike argue bitterly over whether it is more important for a party to capture ideologically moderate swing voters or to encourage turnout among hardcore partisans. The behavioral literature in…
Why and When Hierarchy Impacts Team Effectiveness: A Meta-Analytic Examination
Hierarchy has the potential to both benefit and harm team effectiveness. In this paper, we meta-analytically investigate different explanations for why and when hierarchy helps or hurts team effectiveness, drawing on results from 54 prior studies…
Work Hours and Health: A Comment on "Beyond Nine to Five"
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Commentary on ‘Authenticity and the sharing economy’ by Eliane Bucher, Christian Fieseler, Matthes Fleck and Christophe Lutz
Dynamic Directed Random Matching
We develop a general and unified model in which a continuum of agents conduct directed random searches for counterparties. Our results provide the first probabilistic foundation for static and dynamic models of directed search (including the…
Value for Money? Community Targeting in Vote-Buying and Politician Accountability
Community targeting of vote payments — defined as the saturation of entire neighborhoods with cash prior to elections — is widespread in the developing world. In this paper, we utilize laboratory experiments conducted in the U.S. and Kenya to…
Post-FOMC Announcement Drift in U.S. Bond Markets
There is post-FOMC announcement drift in Treasury markets after Fed Funds target changes. The expectations hypothesis holds on FOMC announcement days, but fails thereafter. The same-day response of 10-year Treasury yields to a 10 bps. surprise in…