Projects

This list is evolving over time, but some of our current projects are:

Peter Arcidiacono:

• “Bias in Covering the News: What Gets Categorized as Fake News Across the Political Spectrum?” 
• “Race and the Media: How Major Newspapers Report Race of the Victim and Race of the Perpetrator” 

Bocar Ba:

• "Evaluating Police Alternatives" 
• "Social Movement and Corporate Opportunities"

Michelle Connolly:

• “Impact of Municipal and Cooperative Internet Provision on Broadband Entry and Competition” 

Jeff DeSimone:

• "Behavioral & Health Effects of the Minimum Legal Drinking Age: Regression Discontinuity Analysis"
• "Gun Policy, Gun Ownership, Mass Shootings, and Gun-Related Deaths"

Grace Kim:

• "A comparative analysis of experiences and outcomes for immigrant vs. native-born entrepreneurs in the U.S."

Rachel Kranton:

• ”COVID-19: productivity and mental health” (with Duncan Thomas)
• “The Effect of Economic Settings on Social Perceptions: Experimental Investigations”

Andrea Lanteri:

• “Barriers to Trade in Capital Goods”

Ellen Meade:

• "Was the fall in interest rates in mid-1981 an intentional loosening of policy by the Fed in order to support economic activity and employment? A narrative approach"

Michael Pollman:

• "Spatial Regression Discontinuity Designs"

Jimmy Roberts:

• "Detecting and Preventing Medicare Fraud" 

Duncan Thomas:

• "Immediate and Longer-Term Effects of Large Scale Natural Disasters" 

Pengpeng Xiao:

• “Gender gaps in the labor market and within the family”
• “Structural models of job search”