Researchers offer a model for more effectively targeting wrongdoers
A model for cities to boost ridership, without snarling car traffic
Queuing models aren’t simple but offer big potential service improvements
A model for staffing O.R.s incorporates the costs of worker dissatisfaction and idle time
History’s Encyclopédie subscribers are matched to grievances against the monarchy
In pre-World War II Germany, sports clubs became a vehicle to spread Nazism
Informed by personal experience, a researcher parses data to help those mulling mastectomy and gynecological surgeries
A field experiment using public donation data indicates peer pressure matters
Measuring the utility of increased care and testing, inputs that aren’t always immediately available
An analysis of warrant trading reveals individuals’ poor grasp of complex securities
An interpretable model versus black-box algorithms for complex decision making
Managers, forced to inform a broader audience, choose not to gather information even for themselves
Leaders of a failed 1848 revolt are followed to towns across the U.S.
Showing cumulative cases — not day-to-day trends — could nudge people to avoid reckless behavior
Cell phone location data and local voting records measure discord
Results of financially weak firms are difficult to forecast; in uncertainty, Wall Street’s views are overly generous