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  Policy

  When Corporations Donate to Candidates, Are They Buying Influence?

  The surprising result suggests the need to rethink the role of money in politics.

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  Marketing

  Are You Offering Your Children Too Many Choices?

  Deciding between an abundance of options leads to less engagement with the final choice.

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  Accounting

  Investors Prefer It When Corporations Are Specific about the Risk They Face

  The market values detailed risk disclosures. But executives should be cautious about oversharing.

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  Strategy

  What Happens to Quality When One Company Builds the Tracks and Another Runs the Trains?

  Governments looking to improve their infrastructure will want to know the answer.

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  Policy

  Is an Unpredictable Leader Good for National Security?

  Think the goal is to keep your enemies guessing? Game theory suggests otherwise.

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  Economics

  Does Immigration Help or Hurt Local Economies?

  Historically, where immigrants cluster in the U.S., prosperity follows.

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  Policy

  We Are Influenced by Racial Information Even When We Are Not Aware of Its Presence

  Many of us acknowledge that implicit racial bias exists, but the problem goes deeper than we think.

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  Policy

  How Uber Took Manhattan

  A Q&A on how startups can anticipate and navigate regulatory challenges.

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  Healthcare

  A Healthcare Policy Expert on Four Key Differences Between the ACA and the AHCA

  Craig Garthwaite explains how the GOP proposal could impact patients, insurers, and hospitals.

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  Economics

  School Shootings Rise and Fall with the Unemployment Rate

  Researchers set out to quantify gun violence at U.S. schools and made a surprising discovery.

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  Policy

  Companies Want to Hire the Best Employees. Can Changes to the H-1B Visa Program Help?

  The current lottery is not optimal for top foreign applicants or the companies that want to hire them.

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  Organizations

  Should You Hire Someone with a Criminal Record?

  Companies that give ex-offenders a fresh start may be rewarded with employees who stick around.

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  Policy

  What Volkswagen’s Emissions Scandal Can Teach Us about Why Companies Cheat

  Tighter standards may backfire in industries with fierce competition.

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  Policy

  Why Are We So Quick to Excuse Drunken Behavior?

  From criminal sentencing to corporate indiscretions, we hold people less accountable when alcohol is involved.

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  Healthcare

  Under the ACA, the Cost of Caring for the Uninsured Decreased for Hospitals

  The benefit has come only in states that expanded Medicaid.

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  Policy

  How Drinking Beer Is Saving Russian Lives

  Decades later, a Soviet public health initiative is still increasing male life expectancy.

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  Healthcare

  The Hidden Benefits of TV Drug Ads

  Patients and taxpayers benefit from controversial direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising.

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  Culture

  Why Sending Your Kid to the Best Possible School May Backfire

  Being surrounded by smarter peers can hurt test scores and incite disruptive behavior.

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  Policy

  Higher Taxes Can Make Altruistic Jobs More Attractive

  But subsidizing these careers may ultimately do more good.

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  Policy

  Christine Lagarde on Income Inequality, Brexit, and the Power of M&Ms

  A Q&A with the IMF managing director and Kellogg’s Sergio Rebelo.

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