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- October 2015
- Teaching Note
1996 Welfare Reform in the United States
- 2009
- Working Paper
Smith and Rawls Share a Room: Stability and Medians
By: Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus and Flip Klijn
We consider one-to-one, one-sided matching (roommate) problems in which agents can either be matched as pairs or remain single. We introduce a so-called bi-choice graph for each pair of stable matchings and characterize its structure. Exploiting this structure we...
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Keywords:
Fairness;
One-Sided Platforms;
Two-Sided Platforms;
Marketplace Matching;
Mathematical Methods;
Balance and Stability
Klaus, Bettina-Elisabeth, and Flip Klijn. "Smith and Rawls Share a Room: Stability and Medians." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-111, March 2009.
- June 2015
- Case
1996 Welfare Reform in the United States
By: Matthew Weinzierl, Katrina Flanagan and Alastair Su
On August 22, 1996, U.S. President Bill Clinton signed into law the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA)—a dramatic reform of the American system of economic assistance for the poor that, as its title suggested, attempted to...
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Keywords:
Welfare State;
Public Goods;
Moral Hazard;
Median Voter Theorem;
Poverty;
Welfare;
Public Administration Industry;
United States
Weinzierl, Matthew, Katrina Flanagan, and Alastair Su. "1996 Welfare Reform in the United States." Harvard Business School Case 715-030, June 2015.
- 2023
- Working Paper
Keep Your Enemies Closer: Strategic Platform Adjustments during U.S. and French Elections
By: Rafael Di Tella, Randy Kotti, Caroline Le Pennec and Vincent Pons
A key tenet of representative democracy is that politicians' discourse and policies should follow voters' preferences. In the median voter theorem, this outcome emerges as candidates strategically adjust their platform to get closer to their opponent. Despite its...
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Di Tella, Rafael, Randy Kotti, Caroline Le Pennec, and Vincent Pons. "Keep Your Enemies Closer: Strategic Platform Adjustments during U.S. and French Elections." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 31503, July 2023.
- April 2005
- Article
Partisan Social Happiness
By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
We use a new approach to study questions in political economy that relies on data on the subjective well-being of a large sample of people living in the OECD over the period 1975-1992. Controlling for the personal characteristics of the respondents, year and country...
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Di Tella, Rafael, and Robert MacCulloch. "Partisan Social Happiness." Review of Economic Studies 72, no. 2 (April 2005): 367–93.
- Web
Global Business Course | HBS Online
role of government in the modern economy and analyze political risks to business strategy. Highlights Introduction - Ray Mabus Welfare Economics Corruption Show Hide Details Concepts The State The Role of Government Democracy and Alternatives Long-Term Growth Featured...
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- 17 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women
to gender, economics, and perceptions of leadership. He received the strongest support from white women without college degrees, 62 percent of whom voted for him. Although his supporters reported median household incomes of $70,000, the...
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by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely
- 20 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
calculate dollar-value equivalents for the freedom to work on demand. “We find that assigning them to the shift they drive the least often is equivalent to a 24 percent pay cut for the median driver and a 36.9 percent pay cut for the...
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- 18 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
How Much is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
calculate dollar-value equivalents for the freedom to work on demand. “We find that assigning them to the shift they drive the least often is equivalent to a 24 percent pay cut for the median driver and a 36.9 percent pay cut for the...
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Consumer Products
- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
which can be indexed by the number of varieties consumers purchase in equilibrium. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-095.pdf Smith and Rawls Share a Room: Stability and Medians Authors: Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus and...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
improved ability of firms to replicate business innovations has changed the nature of business competition. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-016.pdf Do Voters Appreciate Responsive Governments? Evidence from Indian...
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Martha Lagace