Publications

The ability to veto legislation is the most important formal power of the presidency in the legislative process, and presidents’ veto behavior has thus attracted a great deal of theoretical interest. Game-theoretic models of congressional—…

This research examines the hypothesis that religiosity has two competing psychological influences on the social welfare attitudes of contemporary Americans. On the one hand, religiosity promotes a culturally based conservative identity,…

The East Meets West Foundation (EMW) is an international development agency with the mission to transform the health, education, and communities of disadvantaged people in Asia. Through its Breath of Life (BOL) program, EMW provides a complete…

People acquire ways of thinking about time partly in and from work organizations, where the control and measurement of time use is a prominent feature of modern management an inevitable consequence of employees selling their time for money. In…

The authors investigate how both the amount and source of income affects the importance placed on money using a longitudinal analysis of the British Household Panel Survey and evidence from two laboratory experiments. Larger amounts of money…

This study examines the effects of shareholder support for equity compensation plans on subsequent chief executive officer (CEO) compensation. Using cross-sectional regression, instrumental variable, and regression discontinuity research designs…

When a team at Stanford University accepted a challenge to design a low-cost prosthetic knee joint that could be produced locally for use in the JaipurFoot Organization’s clinics across India, the students were eager to dive into the technical…

When a team at Stanford University accepted a challenge to design a low-cost prosthetic knee joint that could be produced locally for use in the JaipurFoot Organization’s clinics across India, the students thoroughly researched the problem,…

We consider the problem of learning a coefficient vector x_0\in RN from noisy linear observation y+Ax_0+w\in RN . In many contexts (ranging from model selection to image processing) it is desirable to construct a sparse estimator x’. In this case…

Prior research argues that a manager whose wealth is more sensitive to changes in the firms stock price has a greater incentive to misreport. However, if the manager is risk-averse and misreporting increases both equity values and equity risk,…

Donors and grantmakers are allocating money more efficiently, thanks to the emergence of information and funding intermediaries such as Philanthropedia and Network for Good.

When do voters win? In this paper we derive conditions under which a democracy will produce policies that favor the voter over special interests. We show that increasing political competition, increasing office holding benefits, decreasing…

This paper proposes that social categorization is driven by an ecological dynamic that operates in two planes: feature space and category space. It develops a theoretical model that links positions in feature space to label assignments in…

We incorporate a stochastic cost for emissions into Venables’ widely-used model of international trade for a single product. Region 1 has climate policy and Region 2 does not. Each region has a distinct  variable cost…

Prior research has found several factors that affect people’s willingness to participate in philanthropy. In the present article, we explore whether people feel more inspired to engage in philanthropy after learning about individuals who help…