Publications

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…

The study of human behaviour has shifted in the past 15 years. It increasingly relies on opt-in non-probability online data sources. Here we offer an analysis of nine such sources (N = 13,053), aiming to inform researchers conducting…

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…

The recent elimination of the United States de minimis exemption for import tariffs has been reported to have a significant impact on ultra-fresh fashion companies such as Shein and Temu. This article develops a game-theoretic model to…

I examine whether mandating the disclosure of investments influences firms’ strategic interactions. I exploit an SEC regulation requiring firms to report off-balance sheet purchase obligations, such as commitments to inventory purchases, CAPEX, R…

We study the effects of social media political advertising by randomizing subsets of 36,906 Facebook users and 25,925 Instagram users to have political ads removed from their news feeds for 6 weeks before the 2020 US presidential election. We…

The Fed is now growing its balance sheet roughly in step with the quantity of reserve balances needed by banks within each day to make timely payments to each other. Systemically important banks also demand large quantities of reserve balances to…

Antisemitism, characterized by prejudice, discrimination, and hostility toward Jews, is marked by two enduring paradoxes. First, although people typically defer to powerholders, perceptions of Jews as powerful are associated with disdain rather…

This report describes the current canonical dataset named Polaris2025, a subset of Seshat: Global History Databank data. This dataset focuses on a well-curated list of polities and variables that have been already used in publications or will be…

To effectively address support for intergroup violence, we must understand the psychology promoting it. Dehumanization—the explicit and blatant denial of an outgroup’s humanity—is widely considered one such promoter, which has informed…

Flexibility is a cornerstone of operations management, crucial to hedge stochasticity in product demands, service requirements, and resource allocation. In two-sided platforms, flexibility is also two-sided and can be viewed as the compatibility…

The tide is turning against a major idea in social psychology: that implicit evaluations reflect mental content that lies beyond conscious awareness. This view is being reconsidered in light of mounting evidence that people can predict their own…

Households rely on financial advisors to make investment and savings decisions. Despite their importance, there have long been concerns that financial advisors are prone to misconduct, and research has shown that these concerns are not unfounded…

Belief change does not always lead to behavior change. This belief–behavior gap has received considerable attention, particularly in the context of misinformation. We expand upon ideas in the literature by offering additional insight derived from…

We analyze the efficiency and efficacy of human and intellectual capital investment to better understand the effects of social investment. Existing literature in the corporate setting lacks analysis on the impact of human and intellectual capital…

Why, when, and to whom do we attribute superhuman characteristics? Seven studies establish the positivity of superhumanization, show that Black Americans superhumanize their ingroup more than White Americans, and find that exposure to media…