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Diversity Incentives Can Increase Women's Aspirations to Lead
This seminar is based on ideas presented in the upcoming book "Make Work Fair" by Iris Bohnet and Siri Chilazi.
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Make Work Fair: Introduction and the Myths We Need to Debunk
In our first seminar of the Spring semester, Bohnet and Chilazi will give an overview of their book and the theme of this ...
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Unemployment insurance benefits buffered workers from negative effects of joblessness during COVID-19
When service sector employment fell by 15% during the early days of the pandemic, many hourly service workers faced increasing economic precarity and negative consequences for their health and ...
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'Repayment-by-Purchase' Helps Consumers to Reduce Credit Card Debt - Michael Norton
December 8, 2020, Paper: "Many consumers struggle to repay their credit card debt, in part because paying small portions of large bills often feels fruitless. We introduce a novel credit card payment ...
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Stock Price Reactions to ESG News: The Role of ESG Ratings and Disagreement - George Serafeim
May 2020, Paper: "We investigate whether ESG ratings predict future ESG news and the associated market reactions. We find that the consensus rating predicts future news, but its predictive ability ...
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Would a Wealth Tax Help Combat Inequality - Lawrence Summers
2021, Book Chapter: Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman have made an important contribution to public finance thinking and the policy debate more generally by placing wealth taxation on the US agenda. In ...
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Tarun Khanna on the jobs of the future, how entrepreneurs can build trust, and institutional voids
March 2019. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School and Director of the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard ...
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Why Firms Offer Paid Parental Leave: An Exploratory Study
January 2020, Paper, "Why do competitive firms in the US provide paid parental leave (PPL)? Which firms do and to what extent? We use several firm- and individual-level data sets to answer these ...
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The Surrogate Index: Combining Short-Term Proxies to Estimate Long-Term Treatment Effects More Rapidly and Precisely
November 2019, Paper, "A common challenge in estimating the long-term impacts of treatments (e.g., job training programs) is that the outcomes of interest (e.g., lifetime earnings) are observed with a ...
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How to avoid greenwashing through audits? A framework for social and environmental assurance - Robert Kaplan
2021, Paper: "Corporate reporting is expanding due to ever-growing demands from investors and regulators for more detailed and better-quality information beyond that included in financial reports, ...
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COVID-19 has closed tribal casinos and cut off other vital revenue sources - Joseph Kalt
June 15, 2020, Audio, "Some Native American tribes have seen high infection rates from COVID-19. And the COVID-19 pandemic has also stalled one of the primary economic engines for tribes. Since the ...
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High Frequency Data and a Weekly Economic Index during the Pandemic - James Stock
December 2020, Paper: "This paper describes a weekly economic index (WEI) developed to track the rapid economic developments associated with the onset of and policy response to the novel coronavirus ...