Content Type: Research Brief
Do Social Laws Always Cause a Backlash?
Laws that threaten ideological preferences prompt some opponents to adopt more extreme beliefs
Do Private Prisons Lead to Higher Incarceration Rates?
Researchers take on the difficult job of isolating for-profit prisons from a host of other factors
Do People Donate Money to Signal Their Intelligence?
Research suggests such a connection when donations are publicized
Do Money Troubles Make It Harder to Daydream?
Popular notion that the poor console themselves with fantasy is perhaps more a comfort to the rich
Do Hospital Mergers Really Cut Health Care Costs?
Matt Schmitt finds that size and location help determine how much, if any, costs fall after deals
Do Fair Disclosure Rules Lead to More or Less Information?
Managers, forced to inform a broader audience, choose not to gather information even for themselves
Do Corporate Wellness Programs Boost Worker Productivity?
Industrial laundry gains 4% output; better health and better feelings toward employer could account for increase
Dividing Patients Between Telehealth, In-Office Primary Care and Referral to Specialists
Getting the mix right is the goal of a Medicare pilot, which itself could use substantial improvement
Diversity: Measuring How and Why Groups See It Differently
Perceived differences between “diverse” and “sufficiently diverse”
Ditching Small Plastic Bottles — for Medium-Sized — Could Cut Waste
1.8 million tons of PET plastic bottles end in landfills annually
Distributing Aid Fairly Amid Scarcity and Unknown Demand
Building adaptability into an approach improves performance
Distillers’ Dilemma: Sell Now or Let Whisky Age Further
Decision analysis for a firm considering adding a longer-aged product to its lineup
Did You Forget, or Never Know? How It Impacts Purchasing
A different decision tree is used when product information is forgotten, rather than just unknown
Did Bank Capital Rules Make Credit Card Borrowing More Expensive?
Though defaults are low, rates on credit card loan-backed notes are high
Descendants of Forced Migrants Value Education More Highly
Post-World War II Poland provides a unique setting to study mobility and success
Deciding When to Decide Can Lead to Better Outcomes
An interpretable model versus black-box algorithms for complex decision making