Adam Looney, Emilie Jackson, and Shanthi Ramnath, 2017. In this paper, the authors draw on administrative tax records to provide a more complete picture of the growing number of American workers who earn income outside of traditional employee-employer relationships through self-employment and business ownership. [download pdf]

Elena Patel, 2017. In this article, the authors present a prototype destination basis cash flow tax to replace the existing corporate income tax. The authors suggest this reform could bolster the ability of the tax system to address income inequality. [download pdf]

Jen Brown and Anne Boring, 2016. In a study of students at a selective French university competing for spots in foreign universities to fulfill a mandatory requirement, the authors find that average- and high-ability female students systematically request universities that are worse than their academic standing and that some of the students’ behavior is explained by [...]

Jen Brown, Dimitry Ryvkin and Philip Brookins, 2017. In a study of how pay incentive schemes affect employees’ job performance, the authors find that when no peer information is available, relative rewards schemes are associated with significantly less risk-taking than non-competitive rewards. The opposite occurs when decision-makers receive information about their peers’ actions and/or outcomes. [download pdf]

Jen Brown and Dylan Minor, 2017. Using sales complaint data for insurance agents, the authors find that agents working exclusively for large branded firms are more likely to be the subject of justified sales complaints, relative to smaller independent experts, despite doing substantially less business. In addition, more experienced experts attract more complaints per year. [download pdf]

Adam Meirowitz and Avidit Acharya, 2015. In a paper that re-examines the discrepancy between sincere and strategic voting in the seminal Condorcet model, the authors introduce a third type of voter to the model: one who receives no evidence that the suspect is either innocent or guilty. The authors create a model that finds strong [...]

Adam Meirowitz, Massimo Morelli, Kristopher Ramsay, Francesco Squintani, 2019. The authors study a model that emphasizes the role that third-party mediators can play in effectively brokering peace and minimizing militarization during disputes that might otherwise lead to military conflict. [download pdf]