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Few Bad Apples? New Study Finds That 40 Percent of Officers in a Large Police Force Are Discriminatory

Felipe Goncalves
A new paper seeks to examine whether police misbehavior is concentrated or diffuse by identifying whether highway patrol officers in Florida are more lenient...
News

What is the Connection Between Collective Bargaining and Police Officer Misconduct? Evidence from Florida

Dhammika Dharmapala
A working paper finds that after sheriffs’ deputies in Florida were allowed to unionize, violent incidents increased by 40 percent. In the aftermath of the...
Covid-19

Revenge of the Experts: Will Covid-19 Diminish Trust in Science and Scientists?

Cevat Giray Aksoy
It is often argued that the Covid-19 pandemic will reverse the ongoing trend of diminishing trust in science and scientists. A new paper finds...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

Call for Papers: Should Corporations Have a Social Purpose?

ProMarket writers
The Stigler Center is launching its fourth Political Economy of Finance conference and seeking papers on topics related to corporate social responsibility, the purpose...
Covid-19

How Were the PPP’s $660 Billion for Small and Medium Firms Allocated?

John M. Barrios
A new study suggests that the Payroll Protection Program's funds were primarily allocated based on 2019’s estimated payroll, which is how the program was...
Antitrust and Competition

Paid to Show the Drug Works: Why “Blind” Clinical Trials for New Drugs are Far Less Blind Than They Should Be

Jessie Wrobel
New research shows that physicians in industry-sponsored trials are more captured by pharmaceutical companies than physicians in unsponsored ones. Economists love health care because it...
News

How Political Conflict Shapes Macroeconomics: Alberto Alesina’s Intellectual Legacy

Guido Tabellini
One of the most respected economists of his generation, Harvard professor Alberto Alesina suddenly died at 63. His friend and colleague Guido Tabellini recalls...
News

We Need More Respectful and Inclusive Experiments in Development Economics: A Proposal

Francesco Loiacono
After many years of field research in Uganda, three economists outline how to prevent a powerful research tool such as randomized controlled trials...
Covid-19

When and How the US Should Reopen Is a Matter of Politics, Trust in Institutions and Media, Survey Says

Marianne Bertrand
A new survey from the Rustandy Center and the Poverty Lab at the University of Chicago finds that political party affiliation and trust in...
Covid-19

Why Social Distancing Measures Seem Less Effective in the US

Gabriele Borg
Guidelines assume that the less people move around, the less likely they are to be in contact. However, phone location data show that in...
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