Households “sort” across neighborhoods according to their wealth and their preferences for
public goods, social characteristics, and commuting opportunities. The aggregation of these …

We consider health and environmental quality in developing countries, where limited
resources constrain behaviors that combat enormously burdensome health challenges. We …

Many economic and causal parameters depend on nonparametric or high dimensional first
steps. We give a general construction of locally robust/orthogonal moment functions for …

The phenomenon of paid search advertising has now become the most predominant form of
online advertising in the marketing world. However, we have little understanding of the …

We analyze games of incomplete information and offer equilibrium predictions that are valid
for, and in this sense robust to, all possible private information structures that the agents may …

We discuss the identification and estimation of discrete games of complete information.
Following Bresnahan and Reiss (1990, 1991), a discrete game is a generalization of a …

Most supermarket firms choose to position themselves by offering either everyday low prices
(EDLP) across several items or offering temporary price reductions (promotions) on a limited …

Social interactions occur when agents in a network affect other agents' choices directly, as
opposed to via the intermediation of markets. The study of such interactions and the …

This paper identifies the degree to which scientists are willing to change the direction of their
work in exchange for resources. Data from the National Institutes of Health are used to …

This essay discusses the field of behavioral economics, with a focus on the papers in
Advances in Behavioral Economics. These papers show that there is a body of “behavioral …