Real estate values are often under-reported to avoid transaction and property taxes, and to hide wealth built from tax-evaded income. We develop a new method to extract estimates of under-reporting, and employ this measure in the Mumbai real estate market. This approach compares the bunching of...

Innovations in statistical technology have sparked concerns about distributional impacts across categories such as race and gender. Theoretically, as statistical technology improves, distributional consequences depend on how changes in functional forms interact with cross-category distributions...

This short paper analyses the trade-offs associated with the deployment of contact tracing applications to support policy responses in the pandemic. In many jurisdictions, the government cannot force individuals to adopt such applications. We therefore analyze a simple model that highlights the...

Algorithms hold great potential to lower costs and democratize access to a wide variety of consumer services. How do humans interact with algorithms, and what are the major barriers to algorithmic adoption? We answer these questions using a structural model applied to unique data that captures...

African American bankruptcy filers are more likely to select Chapter 13 than other debtors, who opt instead for Chapter 7, which has higher success rates and lower attorney fees. Prior scholarship blames racial discrimination by bankruptcy attorneys. We present an alternative explanation:...