There is growing awareness about how social media circulate extreme viewpoints and turn up the temperature of public debate. Posts that exhibit agitation garner disproportionate engagement. Within this clamour, fringe sources and viewpoints are mainstreaming, and mainstream media are...

The literature has shown that people who do not drink alcohol are at greater risk for death than light to moderate drinkers, yet the reasons for this remain largely unexplained. We examine whether variation in people’s reasons for nondrinking explains the increased mortality. Our data come...

This survey deals with an issue that is extremely important for a wide range of applied issues - the magnitude of aggregate labor supply responses to various changes in the economic environment.  In addition to being a very important issue, it is also well known to be quite controversial.  In...