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- 2020
- Working Paper
Hospital Allocation and Racial Disparities in Health Care
By: Amitabh Chandra, Pragya Kakani and Adam Sacarny
We develop a simple framework to measure the role of hospital allocation in racial disparities in health care and use it to study Black and white Medicare patients who are treated for heart attacks—a condition where virtually everyone receives care, hospital care is... View Details
Chandra, Amitabh, Pragya Kakani, and Adam Sacarny. "Hospital Allocation and Racial Disparities in Health Care." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 28018, November 2020.
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
America the Unequal
recent nationwide survey, my colleague Dan Ariely and I found that Americans drastically underestimated the level of wealth inequality in the United States, currently at levels not seen since the 1920s — just before the Great Depression.... View Details
- September 2024
- Article
Gender Gaps: Back and Here to Stay? Evidence from Skilled Ugandan Workers During COVID-19
By: Livia Alfonsi, Mary Namubiru and Sara Spaziani
We investigate gender disparities in the effect of COVID-19 on the labor market outcomes of skilled Ugandan workers. Leveraging a high-frequency panel dataset, we find that the lockdowns imposed in Uganda reduced employment by 69% for women and by 45% for men,... View Details
Alfonsi, Livia, Mary Namubiru, and Sara Spaziani. "Gender Gaps: Back and Here to Stay? Evidence from Skilled Ugandan Workers During COVID-19." Review of Economics of the Household 22, no. 3 (September 2024): 999–1046.
- 17 Feb 2015
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco
home for restaurants, art, and culture at night. And more and more, tech businesses are locating here. “This is a place where the effects of inequality appear to be heightened and most palpable” In doing so, however, technology workers... View Details
- Profile
Pato Bichara
beyond? After graduation, I’d like to go back to Mexico and get involved in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. I believe entrepreneurship is the way to tackle inequality in Mexico and bring economic development. Mexico has huge obesity... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 09 Dec 2020
- News
How to Fix America
(MBA 1992), CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, suggests that we address the issue of wealth inequality by creating “a way for those with no investment assets to participate in the success of capitalism.” His specific plan is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
The Next Lessons
significant developments Khan cited is a new partnership with the College Board, a nonprofit that helps prepare students for college through standardized test preparation and other programs. “The College Board has recognized that there has been View Details
Keywords: William Weber
- 18 Dec 2024
- Podcast
Nicholas Bloom on the unbundled workplace
The Stanford economist explains the momentum behind the work-from-home trend, how to manage a hybrid staff, and the new workforce geography. Also, the tech-driven evolution of remote work and the rise of the CHRO. View Details
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
core size of 34%, and architecture flow through of 64%. These findings suggest that the method could be effective in uncovering the hidden structure of an enterprise application architecture. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45024 View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- September 27, 2013
- Other Article
Closing the Opportunity Divide
Chertavian, Gerald. "Closing the Opportunity Divide." White House Blog (September 27, 2013).
- 2023
- Chapter
Market Design Under Weak Institutions
By: Benjamin N. Roth
As market designers begin to address economic inequality, we will necessarily also
begin to engage marginalized populations who have so far not been served well by the
markets in which they participate. We will need new market designs for participants who
may not... View Details
Roth, Benjamin N. "Market Design Under Weak Institutions." In More Equal by Design: Economic Design Responses to Inequality, edited by Scott Duke Kominers and Alex Teytelboym. Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
- 18 Jun 2020
- News
HBS Community Conversation on Race: June 11, 2020
- 1992
- Chapter
Sharing the Burden. Fair Allocation and Equity
By: James K. Sebenius, Michael Grubb, Antonio Magalhaes and Susan Subak
- 2007
- Working Paper
Plant-Size Distribution and Cross-Country Income Differences
By: Laura Alfaro, Andrew Charlton and Fabio Kanzcuk
We investigate, using plant-level data for 79 developed and developing countries, whether differences in the allocation of resources across heterogeneous plants are a significant determinant of cross-country differences in income per worker. For this purpose, we use a... View Details
Keywords: Heterogeneous Plants; Productivity; Policy Distortions; Wages; Equality and Inequality; Resource Allocation; Macroeconomics
Alfaro, Laura, Andrew Charlton, and Fabio Kanzcuk. "Plant-Size Distribution and Cross-Country Income Differences." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-086, May 2007. (Revised May 2008, August 2008. NBER Working Paper Series, No. 14060, June 2008)
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Research Brief: Ending the Legacy of Poverty
Scott Duke Kominers (photo by Evgenia Eliseeva) Scott Duke Kominers (photo by Evgenia Eliseeva) Income inequality over multiple generations is not just the result of wealthy families passing down money—it’s how those families spend their... View Details
- 2006
- Other Unpublished Work
Positional Limits to Competitive Allocation: Evidence from Corporate Takeovers
By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan. "Positional Limits to Competitive Allocation: Evidence from Corporate Takeovers." 2006.
- 15 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point
would triple the middle class from 400 million to 1.2 billion people, these business leaders were concerned about the growing inequality of income within many nations, across nations, and across regions. Half the world's poor would be in... View Details
- 2024
- Working Paper
A Gender Backlash: Does Exposure to Female Labor Market Participation Fuel Gender Conservatism?
By: Paula Rettl, Diane Bolet, Catherine E. De Vries, Simone Cremaschi, Tarik Abou-Chadi and Sergi Pardos-Prado
The growing participation of women in the labor market has marked a significant societal transformation, coinciding with the rise of gender conservatism and far-right support. We study whether the economic consequences of labor market feminization and gender backlash... View Details
Keywords: Gender Bias; Gender Equality; Gender Inclusivity; Politics; Political Backlash; Political Culture; Conservatism; Gender; Government and Politics; Equality and Inequality; Prejudice and Bias; Labor
Rettl, Paula, Diane Bolet, Catherine E. De Vries, Simone Cremaschi, Tarik Abou-Chadi, and Sergi Pardos-Prado. "A Gender Backlash: Does Exposure to Female Labor Market Participation Fuel Gender Conservatism?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-022, November 2024.
- 2022
- Article
Values and Inequality: Prosocial Jobs and the College Wage Premium
By: Nathan Wilmers and Letian Zhang
Employers often recruit workers by invoking corporate social responsibility, organizational purpose, or other claims to a prosocial mission. In an era of substantial labor
market inequality, commentators typically dismiss these claims as hypocritical: prosocial... View Details
Wilmers, Nathan, and Letian Zhang. "Values and Inequality: Prosocial Jobs and the College Wage Premium." American Sociological Review 87, no. 3 (2022): 415–442.