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Transformational and Transactional Presidents
(SAGE PUBLICATIONS, 2014)
During the 20th century, the United States went from being a second rate power to becoming the world’s sole superpower. Did leaders matter? In the cases I examined in Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American ...
Leadership
(Macmillan, 2016)
A Few Goodmen: Surname-Sharing Co-Authors in Economics
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)
We explore the phenomenon of co-authorship by economists who share a surname. Prior research has included at most two economist co-authors who share a surname. Ours is the first paper to have three economist co-authors who ...
Threat Perceptions and Drivers of Change in Nuclear Security Around the World: Results of a Survey
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2014)
Leaders at the 2010 nuclear security summit agreed on the goal of securing all vulnerable nuclear
material in four years. This goal implied that many countries would change their nuclear security
policies. But the factors ...
The Information Revolution and Soft Power
(Current History, 2014)
The rise of digital networks is diffusing power to new players. Fourth in a series on soft power.
The Year in Elections, 2013: The World's Flawed and Failed Contests
(The Electoral Integrity Project, 2014)
In many countries, polling day ends with disputes about ballot-box fraud, corruption, and flawed registers. Which claims are accurate? And which are false complaints from sore losers? New evidence gathered by the Electoral ...
The analytics of the wage effect of immigration
(Springer Science + Business Media, 2013)
The theory of factor demand has important implications for the study of the impact of immigration on wages. This paper derives the theoretical implications in the context of a general equilibrium model where the wage impact ...
Applying Insights from Behavioral Economics to Policy Design
(Annual Reviews, 2014)
The premise of this article is that an understanding of psychology and other social science disciplines can inform the effectiveness of the economic tools traditionally deployed in carrying out the functions of government, ...
Cost Analysis of Stratospheric Albedo Modification Delivery Systems
(IOP Publishing, 2012)
We perform engineering cost analyses of systems capable of delivering 1–5 million metric tonnes (Mt) of albedo modification material to altitudes of 18–30 km. The goal is to compare a range of delivery systems evaluated ...
The Future Costs of Nuclear Power Using Multiple Expert Elicitations: Effects of RD&D and Elicitation Design
(IOP Publishing, 2013)
Characterization of the anticipated performance of energy technologies to inform policy decisions increasingly relies on expert elicitation. Knowledge about how elicitation design factors impact the probabilistic estimates ...