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Learn more Published Research Privatization and the Diffusion of Innovations Authors: Craig Volden, Vanessa Bouché The privatization of government services tends to bring about a more rapid adoption of innovative policies due to the competitive pressures of the market. In federal systems, however, the diffusion of innovations across subnational governments may offset such benefits of privatization. Learn more Published Research Health Policy Breaking Gridlock: The Determinants of Health Policy Change in Congress Authors: Craig Volden, Alan E. Wiseman Scholars have often commented that health policymaking in Congress is mired in political gridlock, that reforms are far more likely to fail than to succeed, and the path forward is unclear. To reach such conclusions, scholars of health politics have tended to analyze individual major reform proposals to determine why they succeeded or failed and what lessons could be drawn for the future. Learn more Published Research If money doesn’t make you happy then you probably aren’t spending it right. Authors: Timothy Wilson, Elizabeth W. Dunn, Daniel T. Gilbert The relationship between money and happiness is surprisingly weak, which may stem in part from the way people spend it. Drawing on empirical research, we propose eight principles designed to help consumers get more happiness for their money. Learn more Published Research Economics When a Nudge Isn't Enough: Defaults and Saving Among Low-Income Tax Filers Authors: Erin Bronchetti, David Huffman, Ellen Magenheim Recent evidence suggests that the default options implicit in economic choices (e.g., 401(k) savings by white-collar workers) have extraordinarily large effects on decision-making. This study presents a field experiment that evaluates the effect of defaults on savings among a highly policy-relevant population: low-income tax filers. Learn more Published Research A functional model of hierarchy: Why, how, and when vertical differentiation enhances group performance Authors: Eileen Chou, Nir Halevy, Adam D. Galinsky Learn more Published Research Conserving energy by inducing people to drive less. Authors: Timothy Wilson, Jesse Graham, Minkyung Koo We attempted to reduce college students’ use of their cars with an online intervention. Every other day for 2 weeks, students reported the number of miles they had avoided driving. Learn more Published Research Education Pensions and K-12 Teacher Retirement: An Analysis Using National Teacher Data Authors: Leora Friedberg, Sarah Turner The retirement security landscape has changed drastically for most workers over the last thirty years – except for public school teachers and other state and local government employees. Many private-sector employers have stopped offering traditional retirement plans, while most state and local employees remain covered by defined benefit (DB) pension plans. Learn more Working Paper The Political Economy of Workplace Smoking Bans Learn more Published Research Education Labor Market Effects of Pensions and Implications for Teachers Authors: Leora Friedberg While the retirement security landscape has changed drastically for most workers over the last twenty years, traditional defined benefit (DB) pension plans remain the overwhelming norm for K–12 teachers. Because DB plans pay off fully with a fixed income after retirement only if a teacher stays in the profession for decades and yield little or nothing if a teacher leaves early, DB plans induce a strong, nonlinear relationship between years of tenure and benefit accrual. Learn more Published Research “He loves me, he loves me not . . . ”: Uncertainty can increase romantic attraction. Authors: Timothy Wilson, Erin R. Whitchurch, Daniel T. Gilbert This research qualifies a social psychological truism: that people like others who like them (the reciprocity principle). College women viewed the Facebook profiles of four male students who had previously seen their profiles. Learn more Published Research Social Psychology Relative deprivation and intergroup competition Two experiments utilized a new experimental paradigm—the Intergroup Prisoner’s Dilemma— Maximizing Difference (IPD-MD) game—to study how relative deprivation at the group level affects intergroup competition. The IPD-MD game enables group members to make a costly contribution to either a within-group pool that benefits fellow ingroup members, or a between-group pool, which, in addition, harms outgroup members. Learn more Pagination Previous page ‹ Previous Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Current page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Next page Next ›
Published Research Labor market aspects of state and local retirement plans: a review of evidence and a blueprint for future research Authors: Leora Friedberg Traditional defined benefit (DB) pension plans remain the overwhelming norm for teachers, policemen and other employees of state and local governments. The incentives for workers with DB pension plans to stay in their jobs shift dramatically over the course of their careers. Learn more
Published Research Privatization and the Diffusion of Innovations Authors: Craig Volden, Vanessa Bouché The privatization of government services tends to bring about a more rapid adoption of innovative policies due to the competitive pressures of the market. In federal systems, however, the diffusion of innovations across subnational governments may offset such benefits of privatization. Learn more
Published Research Health Policy Breaking Gridlock: The Determinants of Health Policy Change in Congress Authors: Craig Volden, Alan E. Wiseman Scholars have often commented that health policymaking in Congress is mired in political gridlock, that reforms are far more likely to fail than to succeed, and the path forward is unclear. To reach such conclusions, scholars of health politics have tended to analyze individual major reform proposals to determine why they succeeded or failed and what lessons could be drawn for the future. Learn more
Published Research If money doesn’t make you happy then you probably aren’t spending it right. Authors: Timothy Wilson, Elizabeth W. Dunn, Daniel T. Gilbert The relationship between money and happiness is surprisingly weak, which may stem in part from the way people spend it. Drawing on empirical research, we propose eight principles designed to help consumers get more happiness for their money. Learn more
Published Research Economics When a Nudge Isn't Enough: Defaults and Saving Among Low-Income Tax Filers Authors: Erin Bronchetti, David Huffman, Ellen Magenheim Recent evidence suggests that the default options implicit in economic choices (e.g., 401(k) savings by white-collar workers) have extraordinarily large effects on decision-making. This study presents a field experiment that evaluates the effect of defaults on savings among a highly policy-relevant population: low-income tax filers. Learn more
Published Research A functional model of hierarchy: Why, how, and when vertical differentiation enhances group performance Authors: Eileen Chou, Nir Halevy, Adam D. Galinsky Learn more
Published Research Conserving energy by inducing people to drive less. Authors: Timothy Wilson, Jesse Graham, Minkyung Koo We attempted to reduce college students’ use of their cars with an online intervention. Every other day for 2 weeks, students reported the number of miles they had avoided driving. Learn more
Published Research Education Pensions and K-12 Teacher Retirement: An Analysis Using National Teacher Data Authors: Leora Friedberg, Sarah Turner The retirement security landscape has changed drastically for most workers over the last thirty years – except for public school teachers and other state and local government employees. Many private-sector employers have stopped offering traditional retirement plans, while most state and local employees remain covered by defined benefit (DB) pension plans. Learn more
Published Research Education Labor Market Effects of Pensions and Implications for Teachers Authors: Leora Friedberg While the retirement security landscape has changed drastically for most workers over the last twenty years, traditional defined benefit (DB) pension plans remain the overwhelming norm for K–12 teachers. Because DB plans pay off fully with a fixed income after retirement only if a teacher stays in the profession for decades and yield little or nothing if a teacher leaves early, DB plans induce a strong, nonlinear relationship between years of tenure and benefit accrual. Learn more
Published Research “He loves me, he loves me not . . . ”: Uncertainty can increase romantic attraction. Authors: Timothy Wilson, Erin R. Whitchurch, Daniel T. Gilbert This research qualifies a social psychological truism: that people like others who like them (the reciprocity principle). College women viewed the Facebook profiles of four male students who had previously seen their profiles. Learn more
Published Research Social Psychology Relative deprivation and intergroup competition Two experiments utilized a new experimental paradigm—the Intergroup Prisoner’s Dilemma— Maximizing Difference (IPD-MD) game—to study how relative deprivation at the group level affects intergroup competition. The IPD-MD game enables group members to make a costly contribution to either a within-group pool that benefits fellow ingroup members, or a between-group pool, which, in addition, harms outgroup members. Learn more