Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
Do Adult Drug Courts Produce Other Psychosocial Benefits?
Although by no means a household word, “drug courts” have been among the most studied criminal justice interventions of the past two decades. So what are these courts, and why do they matter?
Tough on Crime or Beating the System?
An evaluation of Missouri Department of Mental Health’s Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity Murder Acquittees.
Moving Beyond Deterrence
The Effectiveness of Raising the Expected Utility of Abstaining from Terrorism in Israel
Why Open Access will Stifle Innovation
It is curious that the UK government department promoting Business, Innovation and Skills should be so committed to a policy that might almost be designed to achieve the opposite effect.
Paul Seabright on the Relationship Between the Sexes
There is still a great deal of inequality between the sexes in the workplace. In this episode of the Social Science Bites podcast Paul Seabright combines insights from economics and evolutionary theory to shed light on why this might be so.
Economic Inequality and Political Power (Part 3 of 3)
Faith in the wisdom of the affluent to guide public policy has been sorely tested by the enormous costs in money and human suffering resulting from the Great Recession. My data cast further doubt on the notion that representational inequality arises from the greater knowledge or better judgment of those with higher incomes.
Economic Inequality and Political Power (Part 1 of 3)
If policy influence becomes so unequal that the wishes of most citizens are ignored most of the time, a country’s claim to be a democracy is cast in doubt. And that is exactly what I found in my analyses of the link between public preferences and government policy in the U.S.
Robert Shiller on Behavioral Economics
In the past twenty years there has been a revolution in economics with the study not of how people would behave if they were perfectly rational, but of how they actually behave. At the vanguard of this movement is Robert Shiller of Yale University. He sits down with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Social Science Bites podcast
