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  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Optimal Interventions for Increasing Healthy Food Consumption Among Low Income Households

By: Retsef Levi, Elisabeth Paulson and Georgia Perakis
The federal government currently spends over $100 billion per year on policies aimed to increase fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption among low income households. These include price-, nutrition education-, and access-related interventions. Currently, the government... View Details
Keywords: Bi-level Optimization; Optimal Subsidies; Public Policy; Food Policy; Central Planner; Government Administration; Poverty; Food; Nutrition
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  • 23 May 2018
  • Research & Ideas

How to Know If Your Neighborhood Is Being Gentrified

downsides, starting with the loss of affordable housing and the tearing apart of established communities. The escalation in housing prices often forces the poorest residents to move out, making way for new occupants who are richer—and whiter. These social pressures... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Summer 2015
  • Article

The Effect of Delaware Doctrine on Freezeout Structure and Outcomes: Evidence on the Unified Approach

By: Fernan Restrepo and Guhan Subramanian
Historically, Delaware corporate law provided different standards of judicial review for buyouts by controlling shareholders (also known as "freezeouts") based on what transactional form was used: deferential business judgment review for freezeouts executed as tender... View Details
Keywords: Laws and Statutes; Business and Shareholder Relations; Delaware
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  • 01 Feb 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

Noncompetes and Inventor Mobility: Specialists, Stars, and the Michigan Experiment

Keywords: by Matt Marx, Deborah Strumsky & Lee Fleming
  • 14 Dec 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Regulating for Legitimacy: Consumer Credit Access in France and America

Keywords: by Gunnar Trumbull
  • 10 May 2010
  • Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

central part of their mission, asserting that they educate and develop leaders for society. And yet, if we look at the leading research universities and at the business schools within them, the topic of leadership is actually given fairly... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • 16 Aug 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities

improvement and offer new methods to city planners and real estate developers looking to identify areas in need of improvement. The collaborators reveal their findings in a May 2017 paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Real Estate
  • 06 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

How Local Events Shake Up Corporate Philanthropy

events were over, but the increased generosity tended to taper off and disappear after a few years. Thus, even the most majestic sporting events don't seem to have the power to change a locally-headquartered firm's philanthropic behavior everlastingly—something city... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 18

takes the ideal of status egalitarianism to be central to human rights. Status egalitarianism holds that all members of society stand as moral equals in relation to one another and that the state has a duty to recognize and protect that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 3, 2015

central planner who can structure work and then expect individuals to execute tasks in a prescribed order. In many settings, however, workers have discretion to deviate from the assigned order. This paper... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 23, 2016

central planner who directs individuals to execute tasks in a prescribed order. In many settings, however, workers have discretion to deviate from the assigned order. This paper considers the operational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 14

line of research examines how best to schedule work to improve operational performance. This literature typically takes the perspective of a central planner who directs individuals to execute tasks in a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009

support the R&D and scale necessary to enter such sophisticated capital-intensive industries. There were no firms with the deep technological roots or the skill base to even begin. Yet government planners recognized the challenges of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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