Social norms are the glue that holds society together, yet our knowledge of them remains
heavily intellectually siloed. This article provides an interdisciplinary review of the emerging …

State capacity has become one of the most discussed concepts in development economics
and political economy. In this survey we argue that the study of economic history provides …

We study the effect of physician workforce diversity on the demand for preventive care
among African American men. In an experiment in Oakland, California, we randomize black …

A widely held belief is that autocratic governments have been more effective in reducing the
movement of people to curb the spread of COVID-19. Using daily information on lockdown …

We investigate the effect of social capital on health outcomes during the Covid-19 pandemic
in independent analyses for Austria, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden …

We present a theory of identity politics that builds on two ideas. First, when policy conflict
renders a certain social divide—economic or cultural—salient, a voter identifies with her …

Reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases may be almost impossible without a green
transition—a substantial transformation of consumption and production patterns. To study …

Deception is common in nature and humans are no exception. Modern societies have
created institutions to control cheating, but many situations remain where only intrinsic …

Abstract For 40 years, the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male passively
monitored hundreds of adult black men with syphilis despite the availability of effective …

The presence of a westward‐moving frontier of settlement shaped early US history. In 1893,
the historian Frederick Jackson Turner famously argued that the American frontier fostered …