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- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
to best overcome them. Behavioral sciences have informed policy in many other realms (e.g., health, savings), but they are a largely untapped resource for conservation. We propose a set of guiding questions for applying behavioral... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
511-070 As Ireland's third largest beef processor, Kepak faces new opportunities as well as significant challenges from the collapse of the "Celtic Tiger." The government has identified food and agriculture as one way the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
the interaction of the number and spacing of a family’s children with the pricing policies of the local school. This within-neighborhood variation in tuition prices allows us to control for unobserved determinants of demand with a fine... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
highlighting the work performed by the government of an archetypal American town—from building roads to ensuring food safety—increased trust in government and support for government services. Study 2 (N=21,786) leveraged field data from a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
anyone, he shaped the economic policies of Hong Kong for the quarter century after the war and set the stage for a remarkable economic expansion. This book examines the man behind the story and the successful economic View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
how each of them had a great influence on the way my thinking has been applied in my chosen field." "C. Roland Christensen had the greatest impact on me," notes Feeley. "He got me focused on strategy and policy issues. I've spent all of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
for hospitals in Pune and elsewhere. Dr. Natarajan’s Lighthouse Communities Foundation also “set up citizen help lines, organized food supplies for the needy, and collected money from all over the world to equip a new government COVID... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
Long remembers eating lots of pumpkin — the only food readily available. The early engines of growth were holdovers from the Maoist era: township and village enterprises (TVEs) rooted in China’s vast rural regions, and state-owned... View Details
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
carried out aggressive social distancing measures over the past several months, with many imposing a lockdown that allows only for essential functions, such as buying food or seeking medical care. At the extreme, China’s Hubei (the... View Details
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
Ariely Publication:Health Affairs 31 (February 2012) Abstract Policies that mandate calorie labeling in fast-food and chain restaurants have had little or no observable impact on calorie consumption to date. In three field experiments, we... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
likes to do operations like housekeeping and food and beverage. And there’s a third entity that has the brand. Companies like the Four Seasons or Ritz Carlton, we say they “flag” a hotel. They don’t manage it; they “flag” it. Trump has a... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 30 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along
observationally result in the same thing—‘I don’t trust them’—but has very different policy implications and takeaways for practitioners.” IN BELIEF WE TRUST Minor says the overarching issue is what leads people to trust one group over... View Details
- 26 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind
examine whether it was important that you made the decision to bring the bags as opposed to a store policy that requires it," says Karmarkar, noting that some stores obligate customers to bring their own bags; others charge customers... View Details
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
"truth in giving" policies are highly responsive to recipient heterogeneity and biased against more generous giving. Traveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India Authors:Lakshmi Iyer and Anandi Mani... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
engineer scarcity by limiting supply when secondary markets thicken to separate primary and secondary markets. We find support for these hypotheses in the U.S. concert ticket industry. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2359803 August... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
benefactor and main trading partner, entering what is referred to as “the Special Period,” which would last until the mid-1990s. Gas shortages led to farming and distribution disruptions, which led to food shortages. The average Cuban... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
mother gave me a copy of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. I was very struck by that book. I find the writing, in retrospect, really wretched, but the kind of passion that said, "Here is an awful system," was pivotal in getting food... View Details
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
Authors:Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf Publication:NBER Innovation Policy & the Economy (MIT Press) 10 (2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Book: http://www.nber.org/books/lern09-1 Working PapersInternational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
volunteer projects, a school partnership program that allows employees to take off up to eight hours per month to volunteer, and frequent food and clothing collection drives. John Ince: One World, my company, is a nonprofit devoted to... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
Competition Policy International Whither Uber? Competitive Dynamics in Transportation Networks By: Edelman, Benjamin G. Abstract—Transportation Network Companies offer notable service advances—but do they comply with the law? And if not,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel