Content Type: Research Brief
Implementing AI: How Companies Might Manage — Even Avoid — Employee Burnout
Promise of productivity gains can set off a rat race among workers
When More Choice Makes an Offer Less Appealing
An item on the menu you don’t want can undermine your desire for an item you’re perfectly happy to have
A Better Method of Detecting Wash Trades (Tool of Market Manipulators)?
Blockchain data from three NFT marketplaces suggest widespread fictitious trades
Adolescents, It Turns Out, Can Think Beyond the Present
With help, they can connect to their much older future selves, which aids in moderating today’s behavior
The Underappreciated Costs of Chasing a Raise
People have outsized expectations of how much happiness money can buy
Testing Support for Firearms Control Laws by Setting a Price on Enforcement
$100 per taxpayer seems to erode backing for restrictions on guns in alcohol-serving establishments
For New College Grads, the AI Jobpocalypse Didn’t Arrive
Even counting grads who want a job but aren’t looking, summer 2026 looked like other recent summers
With AI Help, More People Appeal Their Property Tax Assessment
A chatbot offering homeowners personalized advice boosted tax challenges, which are concentrated among the more well-to-do
Who Wants to Break Up Big Companies?
Clues to what moves public opinion toward stricter antitrust policy
AI, Asked for Life Advice for Young Adults, Doesn’t Just Echo What Humans Recommend
Left unsaid: The bot wasn’t very confident in its own advice
Diversity Initiatives, Under Political Attack, Need a New Training Regimen
Researchers recommend eliciting and acknowledging the fears some employees have, but no retreat from DEI goals
Who Cares When Foreigners Adopt AI?
AI use in other countries doesn’t inspire domestic adoption, even when those competitors are right next door
How Amazon Can Shape Prices by Responding to Rivals
Dominant online retailer may help sustain higher prices and capture most of the resulting gains
The Declining Power of Your Human Capital in the Age of AI
Where AI can do the heavy lifting, choice of freelancers is now driven more by price and less by experience
Why Aren’t More Drugs Already on the Market Repurposed for Other Diseases?
Structuring incentives — extended patent protection, expedited approval — turns out to be remarkably difficult
Reducing Partisan Hostility Can Be Surprisingly Simple
Megastudy: strategies reduce political animosity, but don’t necessarily improve — and may harm — commitment to democratic principles