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Witches, Floods, and Wonder Drugs: Historical Perspectives on Risk Management
(Springer, 1980)Risk is a people problem, and people have been contending with it for a very long time indeed. I extract some lessons from this historical record and explore their implications for current and future practice of risk ... -
Resistance to Reform: Status Quo Bias in the Presence of Individual- Specific Uncertainty
(American Economic Association, 1991)Why do governments so often fail to adopt policies which economists consider to be efficiency-enhancing? Our answer to this question relies on uncertainty regarding the distribution of gains and losses from reform. We ... -
Resistance to Reform: Status Quo Bias in the Presence of Individual-Specific Uncertainty
(American Economic Association, 1991)Why do governments so often fail to adopt policies which economists consider to be efficiency-enhancing? Our answer to this question relies on uncertainty regarding the distribution of gains and losses from reform. We ... -
Motor Voter or Motivated Voter?
(New Prospect, Inc., 1996)The Motor Voter law was supposed to dramatically increase turnout and give marginalized groups more voice in politics. Unfortunately, getting these groups to register doesn't do any good if you don't give them reason to vote. -
The Nuclear Weapons Complexes: Meeting the Conversion Challenge -- A Proposal for Expanded Action
(Russian-American Nuclear Security Advisory Council., 1997)Since the end of the Cold War, the United States and Russia have undertaken a serious effort to convert their nuclear complexes to non-weapons work. However, it has been difficult to achieve significant progress toward ... -
Multidimensional Uncertainty and Herd Behavior in Financial Markets
(American Economic Association, 1998)We study the relationship between asset prices and herd behavior, which occurs when traders follow the trend in past trades. When traders have private information on only a single dimension of uncertainty (the effect of a ... -
Why do More Open Economies Have Bigger Governments?
(University of Chicago Press, 1998)There exists a positive correlation between an economy's exposure to international trade and the size of its government. The correlation holds for most measures of government spending, in low- as well as high-income samples, ... -
The process of discovery
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The Market for Evaluations
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Resources and Resourcefulness: Strategic Capacity in the Unionization of California Agriculture, 1959-1966
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A Nation of Organizers: The Institutional Origins of Civic Voluntarism in the United States
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Mentoring and Diversity
(American Economic Association, 2000)We study how diversity evolves at a firm with entry-level and upper-level employees who vary in ability and "type" (gender or ethnicity). The ability of entry-level employees is increased by mentoring. An employee receives ... -
Participatory Politics, Social Cooperation, and Economic Stability
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The Power of Story in Social Movements
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Voters in the Crosshairs
(The American Prospect, 2001)New technologies were supposed to enable campaigns to reach more voters. Instead, they ended up fragmenting and alienating much of the electorate. -
Information as Influence: How Institutions Mediate the Impact of Scientific Assessments on Global Environmental Affairs
(John F. Kennedy School of Government. Harvard University., 2002)The recognition that information matters in world affairs raises a number of questions as to when, how, and under what conditions it influences the behavior of policy actors. Despite the vast and growing array of institutions ...