Nathan Seegert, Jason Sandvik, Richard Saouma and Christopher Stanton, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2020. Results from a field experiment suggest simple management practices encouraging workers to ask peers about their own sales techniques substantially improved individual performance. [download pdf]
Nathan Seegert, Elena Patel and Christopher Mace, National Tax Journal, 2020. Using administrative data from Washington state to study the recreational marijuana industry, the authors determine that in perfectly competitive markets, marijuana producers pay slightly more of the industry’s tax burden than consumers. In a monopoly market, consumers pay most of the tax burden. [download pdf]
Adam Meirowitz and Kristopher Ramsay, Handbook of Political Science, Sage Press, 2020. In this chapter in The SAGE Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science and International Relations, the authors put forward a framework for using game theory to study politics. [download pdf]
In this chapter we put forward a framework for using game theory to study politics. In our view, the rigorous analysis of strategic interactions can make a number of contributions to our collective understanding of political phenomena. Author(s): Adam Meirowitz, Kristopher W. Ramsay Read full article
Asymmetric information can lead to inefficient outcomes in many bargaining contexts. It is sometimes natural to think of asymmetric information as emerging from imperfect observation of previously taken actions (e.g., obtaining compliments or substitutes for the item being bargained over). How do such strategic investment choices prior to bargaining interact with the strategic problem [...]
A voluminous literature seeks to understand which institutions effectively resolve disputes that might otherwise lead to military conflict. The emergence of a dispute is usually taken as the starting point of the analysis so as to ask questions of the sort, given a dispute, how will different institutions such as mediated or unmediated peace [...]
Many borrowers have difficulty repaying their federal student loans, particularly at certain institutions. This paper proposes an institutional accountability system that is intended to help align incentives of institutions with their student loan borrowers and taxpayers. Under the risk-sharing proposal, institutions with poor loan performance reimburse the federal loan program for [...]
Cohort Repayment Rates as an Indicator of Student Success and Institutional Accountability Low- and middle-income college borrowers often struggle with economic opportunity and loan burdens after leaving school. However, some institutions, including some non-selective schools, do a good job of providing economic mobility to low-income students. This implies that there is scope for a [...]
This paper examines how housing market distress affects job search. Using data from a leading online job search platform during the Great Recession, we find that job seekers in areas with depressed housing markets apply for fewer jobs that require relocation. With their search constrained geographically, job seekers broaden their search to lower level [...]
Despite the large impact institutions have on the allocation of population, it remains an open question which institutions produce an efficient allocation of people across cities. Due to agglomeration, differences in amenities, and congestion, cities experience decreasing returns to population within cities (intensive margin) and across cities (extensive margin). This paper considers three institutional [...]