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$100 Bills on the Sidewalk: Violations of No-Arbitrage in 401(k) Accounts
(MIT Press, 2011)We identify employees at seven companies whose 401(k) investment choices are dominated because they are contributing less than the employer matching contribution threshold despite being vested in their match and being able ... -
Abuse of Dominance by High-Technology Enterprises: A Comparison of U.S. and E.C. Approaches
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)This paper compares how the United States and the European Community dealt with competition policy challenges by two firms operating at the frontiers of technology: Microsoft and Intel. The U.S. Microsoft case was broadly ... -
Access Pricing, Competition, and Incentives to Migrate From "Old" to "New" Technology
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)In this paper, we analyze the incentives of an incumbent and an entrant to migrate from an "old" technology to a "new" technology, and discuss how the terms of wholesale access affect this migration. We show that a higher ... -
Access to 4-Year Public Colleges and Degree Completion
(University of Chicago Press, 2017)Does access to 4-year colleges affect degree completion for students who would otherwise attend 2-year colleges? Admission to Georgia’s 4-year public sector requires minimum SAT scores. Regression discontinuity estimates ... -
Addressing Catastrophic Risks: Disparate Anatomies Require Tailored Therapies
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)Catastrophic risks differ in terms of their natural or human origins, their possible amplification by human behaviors, and the relationships between those who create the risks and those who suffer the losses. Given their ... -
Adjustment Costs, Firm Responses, and Micro vs. Macro Labor Supply Elasticities: Evidence from Danish Tax Records
(MIT Press, 2011)We show that the effects of taxes on labor supply are shaped by interactions between adjustment costs for workers and hours constraints set by firms. We develop a model in which firms post job offers characterized by an ... -
Advancing Nuclear Security:Evaluating Progress and Setting New Goals
(Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2014)The threat of nuclear and radiological terrorism has not disappeared, though the world has made important progress in reducing these risks. Urgent new steps are needed to build effective and lasting nuclear security ... -
AGOA Rules: The Intended and Unintended Consequences of Special Fabric Provisions
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)Lesotho and other least developed African countries responded impressively to the preferences they were granted under the African Growth and Opportunities Act with a rapid increase in their clothing exports to the US. But ... -
All Foundings Are Forced
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012)Days after the beginning of the Libyan uprising in February 2011, a self-appointed group of human rights lawyers and defectors from Qaddafi’s regime announced the formation of the Transitional National Council and declared ... -
All Stocks of Weapons-Usable Nuclear Materials Worldwide Must be Protected Against Global Terrorist Threats
(Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, 2011)The danger of nuclear terrorism is real enough to justify urgent action to reduce the risk. Some terrorist groups are actively seeking nuclear weapons and the materials to make them; it is plausible that a technically ... -
Alternative Metrics for Comparing Domestic Climate Change Mitigation Efforts and the Emerging International Climate Policy Architecture
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2016)The availability of practical mechanisms for comparing domestic efforts aimed at mitigating global climate change are important for the stability, equity, and efficiency of international climate agreements. We examine a ... -
American Indian Self-Determination: The Political Economy of a Policy that Works
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)Since the 1970s, federal American Indian policy in the United States has been aimed at promoting self-determination through self-governance by federally-recognized tribes. This policy has proven to be the only policy that ... -
The analytics of the wage effect of immigration
(Springer Science + Business Media, 2013)The theory of factor demand has important implications for the study of the impact of immigration on wages. This paper derives the theoretical implications in the context of a general equilibrium model where the wage impact ... -
Applying Insights from Behavioral Economics to Policy Design
(Annual Reviews, 2014)The premise of this article is that an understanding of psychology and other social science disciplines can inform the effectiveness of the economic tools traditionally deployed in carrying out the functions of government, ... -
Are Ballot Initiative Outcomes Influenced by the Campaigns of Independent Groups? A Precinct-Randomized Field Experiment
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012)Ballot initiatives are consequential and common, with total spending on initiative campaigns in the US rivaling that of Presidential campaigns. Observational studies using regression approaches on observational data have ... -
Are Bilateral Remittances Countercyclical?
(Springer, 2011)By putting together a relatively large data set on bilateral remittances of emigrants, this paper is able to shed light on the important hypothesis of smoothing. The smoothing hypothesis is that remittances are countercyclical ... -
Are Bilateral Remittances Countercyclical?
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)By putting together a relatively large data set on bilateral remittances of emigrants, this paper is able to shed light on the important hypothesis of smoothing. The smoothing hypothesis is that remittances are countercyclical ... -
Are global wind power resource estimates overstated?
(IOP Publishing, 2013)Estimates of the global wind power resource over land range from 56 to 400 TW. Most estimates have implicitly assumed that extraction of wind energy does not alter large-scale winds enough to significantly limit wind power ... -
Are There Global Norms and Universal Standards of Electoral Integrity and Malpractice? Comparing Public and Expert Perceptions
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, 2012)When international observers criticize the quality of elections, do these expert evaluations reflect ‘Western/American’ values? Or are there universal global norms of electoral integrity and malpractice which are shared ...