We examine how women’s employment leads to household technology adoption in the context of mid-century United States. Using World War II factories and male casualty rates to instrument for female labor demand, we find that the rise in women’s labor force participation between 1940 and 1950...

Systematic discrimination and violence against minorities are enduring phenomena. This paper investigates the role of racist narratives in sustaining discriminatory attitudes and collective violence against the Black population in the United States South from 1865 to today. Leveraging plausible...

We consider a two-group clinical trial with a survival outcome, in which some subjects may 'cross over' to receive the treatment of the other arm. Our command strbee adjusts for treatment cross-over in one or both arms. This is done by a randomization-respecting method which preserves the...

strbee analyzes a two-group clinical trial with a survival outcome, in which some subjects may "crossover" to receive the treatment of the other arm. Adjustment for treatment crossover is done by a randomization-respecting method that preserves the intention-to-treat p-value. Copyright 2002 by...

Household investment in preventative health products is low in developing countries even though benefits from these products are very high. What interventions most effectively stimulate demand? In this paper, we experimentally estimate demand curves for health products in Kenya, Guatemala,...

Household investment in preventative health products is low in developing countries even though benefits from these products are very high. What interventions most effectively stimulate demand? In this paper, we experimentally estimate demand curves for health products in Kenya, Guatemala,...

We study the dynamics between intra-household bargaining and parental time-intensive investments in children. We combine novel measures of verbal investments and beliefs about the returns to investment for both parents with hyper-local variation in female bargaining power stemming from...