Smart-home technology has been heralded as an important way to increase energy conservation, but causal evidence remains scarce. We estimate the causal impact of smart thermostats on energy use using data from two novel field experiments in which a random subset of treated households were given...

Increasing evidence indicates the importance of management in determining firms' productivity. Yet, causal evidence regarding the effectiveness of management practices is scarce, especially for high-skilled workers in the developed world. In an eight-month field experiment measuring the...

The value of time determines relative prices of goods and services, investments, productivity, economic growth, and measurements of income inequality. Economists in the 1960s began to focus on the value of non-work time, pioneering a deep literature exploring the optimal allocation and value of...