Medicare Ratings Didn’t Predict Nursing Homes’ Initial COVID-19 Vulnerability
Rate of spread in the surrounding community was a bigger indicator of risk
Does Spending Mean You’re Wealthy?
To many, yes, and that belief leads to lower levels of financial well-being
Go Ahead, You Decide How Much Wealth Should Be Redistributed
Can modern decision theory, paired with a half-century-old thought experiment, help make a more just society?
Replicating a Successful Nudge in Health Care: Advice for Skeptics
How it often goes wrong and key observations for effective strategies
A Different Way to Evaluate Private Equity Performance
An approach tailored to investor risk appetite and more comparable to stocks
COVID-19-Induced Eviction Moratoria Reduced Hunger and Anxiety
Housing guaranteed, rent payments went toward food
Maximizing Retirement Savings: More Nudging Required
Tweaking 401(k) website design and language can significantly boost worker contributions, yet HR doesn’t always see these opportunities
Like Checking the Weather: Air-Quality App Charts Local Pollution
Information helps users decide when, and whether, to venture outside or exercise
Boring Tasks We Abandon Too Soon: a Method to Finish the Job
Pairing the mundane — hand washing, teeth brushing — with more engaging activities
How Universities Can Behave Like Entrepreneurial Organizations
Tradition bound, colleges face pressures to be nimbler, more opportunistic
How Loyalty Programs Might Become More Profitable
Target customers with easy access to a competitor?
We Hate Crowds, But Fail to Strategize on Avoiding Them
When might most other people choose to visit the bank?
On Kickstarter, Beware of ‘Feature Fatigue’
Backers like to offer suggestions to a not-quite-finished product
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
Warmth vs. Competence: a Way to Organize Study of Job, Gender and Racial Stereotypes?
Nurses (and women) rate highly for warmth; lawyers, not so much
Holiday Meals Shortened by Political Divide
Cell phone location data and local voting records measure discord