A theory of leadership is proposed and tested. Leaders are characterized as those who have the ability to choose the … right direction more frequently than their peers. The theory implies that leaders tend to be more able, place themselves in … visible decision making situations more frequently, and are generalists. Also, the most able leaders should be found in the …

communicates the future course of action of the organization. In practice, leaders learn about the best course of action for the … of the mission statement. But resolute leaders also inhibit communication with followers and leader resoluteness is …

the role of social interactions with local female leaders for sustaining program impacts. The social interactions are … identified through the randomized assignment of leaders and other beneficiaries to different cash transfer packages. Random … exposure to leaders that received the largest package was found to augment short-term program impacts on households …

The US Civil War provides researchers a unique opportunity to identify wartime leaders and thus to test theories of … leadership. By observing both leaders and followers during the war and forty years after it, I establish that the most able … became wartime leaders, that leading by example from the front was an effective strategy in reducing desertion rates, and …

-benefit analysis. We discuss two dominant approaches, the first based on market prices, and the second based on intertemporal ethics …

Economics and ethics both offer important perspectives on our society, but they do so from two different viewpoints … - the central focus of economics is how the price system in our economy values resources; the central focus of ethics is the …

Ethics in social science experimentation and data collection are often discussed but rarely articulated in writing as … review boards, most recognize that such boards are not comprehensive ethical assessments. We propose a structured ethics … explicitly in appendices of papers, even if briefly, will serve two purposes: more complete communication of ethics can improve …