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Guilt Enhances the Sense of Control and Drives Risky Judgments
(American Psychological Association, 2014-10-28)The present studies investigate the hypothesis that guilt influences risk-taking by enhancing one's sense of control. Across multiple inductions of guilt, we demonstrate that experimentally induced guilt enhances optimism ... -
De Gustibus non est Taxandum: Heterogeneity in Preferences and Optimal Redistribution
(Elsevier, 2015)The prominent but unproven intuition that preference heterogeneity reduces redistribution in a standard optimal tax model is shown to hold under the plausible condition that the distribution of preferences for consumption ... -
Habit Formation and Rational Addiction: A Field Experiment in Handwashing
(2017-09-21)Regular handwashing with soap is believed to have substantial impacts on child health in the developing world. Most handwashing campaigns have failed, however, to establish and maintain a regular practice of handwashing. ... -
Handgun waiting periods reduce gun deaths
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017)Handgun waiting periods are laws that impose a delay between the initiation of a purchase and final acquisition of a firearm. We show that waiting periods, which create a “cooling off” period among buyers, significantly ... -
Handshaking Promotes Cooperative Dealmaking
(2014-12-09)Humans use subtle sources of information—like nonverbal behavior—to determine whether to act cooperatively or antagonistically when they negotiate. Handshakes are particularly consequential nonverbal gestures in negotiations ... -
Happily Ever After: Immigration, Natives’ Marriage, and Fertility
(2018-08-01)In this paper, we study the effects of immigration on natives’ marriage, fertility, and family formation across US cities between 1910 and 1930. Instrumenting immigrants’ location decision by interacting pre-existing ethnic ... -
Happiness on Tap: Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco
(American Economic Association, 2012-11-01)Connecting private dwellings to the water main is expensive and typically cannot be publicly financed. We show that households' willingness to pay for a private connection is high when it can be purchased on credit, not ... -
Health App Policy: International Comparison of Nine Countries’ Approaches
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2022-03-18)An abundant and growing supply of digital health applications (apps) exists in the commercial tech-sector, which can be bewildering for clinicians, patients, and payers. A growing challenge for the health care system is ... -
Health Externalities and Policy: The Role of Social Preferences
(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2022-09)Social preferences facilitate the internalization of health externalities, for example, by reducing mobility during a pandemic. We test this hypothesis using mobility data from 258 cities worldwide alongside experimentally ... -
Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Health Care
(MIT Press - Journals, 2020-07)We investigate the link between hospital performance and managerial education by collecting a large database of management practices and skills in hospitals across nine countries. We find that hospitals closer to universities ... -
Helping You Help Me: The Role of Diagnostic (In)congruence in the Helping Process within Organizations
(2014-01-13)Through an inductive, multi-method field study at a major design firm, we investigated the helping process in project work and how that process affects the success of a helping episode, as perceived by help-givers and/or ... -
Henry A. Kissinger as Negotiator: Background and Key Accomplishments
(2014-12-08)Following a brief summary of Henry A. Kissinger’s career, this paper describes three of his most pivotal negotiations: the historic establishment of U.S. diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China, the easing ... -
Henry Kissinger's Negotiation Campaign to End the Vietnam War
(2017-01-20)President Richard M. Nixon was elected in 1968 with the widespread expectation that he would bring about an end to the costly and unpopular war in Vietnam. The task largely fell to National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger. ... -
Henry Kissinger: Negotiating Black Majority Rule in Southern Africa
(2017-01-20)In 1976, United States Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger conducted a series of intricate, multiparty negotiations in Southern Africa to persuade white Rhodesian leader Ian Smith to accede to black majority rule. Conducted ... -
Here's a Tip: Prosocial Gratuities Are Linked to Corruption
(2012-08-31)We investigated the link between tipping, an altruistic act, and bribery, an immoral act. We found a positive relationship between these two seemingly unrelated behaviors, using archival cross-national data for 32 countries, ... -
Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns
(2014-01-27)This study tests the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The empirical analysis has three comparative advantages: including emerging and advanced economies, isolating panel variation ... -
Hidden Structure: Using Network Methods to Map Product Architecture
(2014)In this paper, we describe an operational methodology for characterizing the architecture of complex technical systems and demonstrate its application to a large sample of software releases. Our methodology is based upon ... -
High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration
(Annual Reviews, 2017-04-04)This paper reviews recent research regarding high-skilled migration. We adopt a data-driven perspective, bringing together and describing several ongoing research streams that range from the construction of global migration ... -
Highway to Success: The Impact of the Golden Quadrilateral Project for the Location and Performance of Indian Manufacturing
(2013-01-23)We investigate the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on the Indian organized manufacturing sector using enterprise data. The GQ project upgraded the quality and width of 5,846 km of roads in India. ... -
Highway to Success: The Impact of the Golden Quadrilateral Project for the Location and Performance of Indian Manufacturing
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2014-10-24)We investigate the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on the Indian organized manufacturing sector using enterprise data. The GQ project upgraded the quality and width of 5,846 km of roads in India. ...