We argue that the Zeithammer and Adams paper [Zeithammer, R., C. Adams. 2010. The sealed-bid abstraction in online auctions. Marketing Sci. 29(6) 964-987] successfully documents consistent patterns in eBay bidding data that cast doubt on the common assumption that bidders in such auctions follow...

Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century is the most widely discussed work of economics in recent history, selling millions of copies in dozens of languages. But are its analyses of inequality and economic growth on target? Where should researchers go from here in exploring the...

This paper develops a general method for assessing the robustness of standard empirical methods measuring group differences in achievement to violations in the cardinal comparability of achievement test scores. The paper defines a distance measure over possible test scales and then constructs...

As income and wealth inequality have grown in the United States in recent decades, the large and growing differences in household expenditures on children from advantaged versus disadvantaged backgrounds have increasingly become a matter of public concern. High socioeconomic status (SES)...