… For example, a study might seek to reject the null hypothesis that a job applicant’s perceived
race has … Showing that one’s preferred theory cannot be ruled out by the data is therefore an …

… Formally, let the total demand of standard agents be denoted by A S (p) ≡ 1 − F (p). … S
denote welfare when there are only standard agents in the population, and totally differentiate W S …

… Using birth certificate data on mother’s education for the different first names used in our
sample, we find little relationship between social background and the namespecific callback …

Most papers that employ Differences-in-Differences estimation (DD) use many years of data
and focus on serially correlated outcomes but ignore that the resulting standard errors are …

… Now, it’s possible that poor children are simply unskilled at remembering size. So the …
Similarly, scarcity’s capture of attention affects not only what we see or how fast we see it but also …

… We find such a story unconvincing because of Romano’s (1987) evidence of a very exclusive
political process, where the takeover statutes are often passed under the political pressure …

… Because our hypothesis is about how monetary concerns tax the cognitive system, we define
poverty broadly as the gap between one’s needs and the resources available to fulfill them. …

… An unusual aspect of our dataset is that we observe the algorithm’s inputs and outputs as
well as its objective function, providing us a unique window into the mechanisms by which bias …

… full version of this paper (Bertrand and Mullainathan, 2000). … even after controlling for the
individual’s education, sex, and race. … Again, we find that people’s self-reported satisfaction with …

… parameter) to separate the data used in the fitting of the function from the data used in the
forming of predicted values; this ensured, for example, that our evaluations of a function’s …