Two factors have elevated recent academic and policy interest in tropical deforestation: first,
the realization that it is a major contributor to climate change; and second, a revolution in …

Reducing the severity of injuries resulting from motor-vehicle crashes has long been a
primary emphasis of highway agencies and motor-vehicle manufacturers. While progress …

Consumer reviews are now part of everyday decision making. Yet the credibility of these
reviews is fundamentally undermined when businesses commit review fraud, creating fake …

Researchers frequently test identifying assumptions in regression-based research designs
(which include instrumental variables or difference-in-differences models) by adding …

Credit card fraud is a serious and growing problem. While predictive models for credit card
fraud detection are in active use in practice, reported studies on the use of data mining …

This book provides the most comprehensive treatment to date of microeconometrics, the
analysis of individual-level data on the economic behavior of individuals or firms using …

Recent data collections about political violence are frequently based on media reports,
which can lead to reporting bias. This is an issue in particular for the emergent literature on …

We employ a discrete choice experiment in the employment process for a national call
center to estimate the willingness to pay distribution for alternative work arrangements …

Economists have devoted increasing attention to the magnitude and consequences of
measurement error in their data. Most discussions of measurement error are based on the …

The Home Mortgage Disclosure Act was enacted to monitor minority and low-income access
to the mortgage market. The data collected for this purpose show that minorities are more …