Funding Source: NIH (R21DA058849) – This study explores the intersection of the opioid epidemic and intimate partner violence (IPV), focusing on the impact of a key opioid-targeted intervention: the abuse-deterrent reformulation of OxyContin. While opioid misuse has long been linked … Continue reading From Addiction to Aggression: The Spillover Effects of Opioid Policies on Intimate Partner Violence Faculty

Funding Source: Spencer Foundation Small Grant – Since 1991, Chile has provided renewable cash grants to indigenous students from lower-income households, conditional on enrollment in primary, secondary, or tertiary grades. We estimate intent-to-treat effects of grants on indigenous adults, leveraging … Continue reading Targeted education transfers reduced long-run ethnic inequality in Chile Faculty

Funding Source: Harvard Business School – New data from a Russian game show reveal that female players of equal ability are significantly less likely to be picked by male team captains to answer a given question as compared to their male … Continue reading Can You Hear Me Now: Gender Bias in the Consideration of Ideas

Funding Source: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and U.S. Social Security Administration – A century-long trend towards earlier retirement for men in the U.S. and other developed countries came to a sudden halt in the mid-1990s.  Over the past twenty years, both … Continue reading Working Longer in the U.S. and Around the World: The Role of Social Security

Funding Source: Wellesley College – This project examines the paradigm shift from inequality to solidarity currently underway in the U.S.; the ways in which economics as a discipline has to evolve in order to study and facilitate this shift; the … Continue reading From Inequality to Solidarity: Co-Creating An Economics for People and Planet

This project analyzes the role of securities underwriters in American financial development.  During the nineteenth century, investment bankers developed the capacity to raise huge amounts of capital for railroads and other large firms, and typically played an important role in … Continue reading Role of Investment Bankers in American Financial Development