The United States incarcerates a higher fraction of its population than any other country in the world. Recent trends, including the election of “progressive prosecutors” to a rhetoric of opposition to “mass incarceration,” suggest momentum to reduce the size and alter the composition of our incarcerated population. Is this...
Please join us for the BISG’s Qualtrics Design workshop and Running Mturk Experiments workshop on Wednesday, February 19and Monday, February 24 from 6-8pm at Wexner Building - W-G02 SEMINAR ROOM . The BISG workshops will be led by Alexa Weiss, a Research Manager at Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD) and former Research Fellow at S3 R&D Lab at the Center for Public Leadership. Alexa will provide an introduction to designing Qualtrics...
Please join us for the BISG’s Qualtrics Design workshop and Running Mturk Experiments workshop on Wednesday, February 19and Monday, February 24 from 6-8pm at Wexner Building - W-G02 SEMINAR ROOM . The BISG workshops will be led by Alexa Weiss, a Research Manager at Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD) and former Research Fellow at S3 R&D Lab at the Center for Public Leadership. Alexa will provide an introduction to designing Qualtrics surveys for online...
The United States incarcerates a higher fraction of its population than any other country in the world. Recent trends, including the election of “progressive prosecutors” to a rhetoric of opposition to “mass incarceration,” suggest momentum to reduce the size and alter the composition of our incarcerated population. Is this trend desirable? And if it is, can it be sustained against the likely return of a “tough on crime” political rhetoric? A partial answer to both questions lies in producing credible evidence of the comparative costs and benefits of incarceration versus alternatives,...
Rubenstein Building - R-414 A.B DAVID ELLWOOD DEMOCRACY LAB
Our research reveals that people all over the world prefer less inequality – in wealth, health, and income. For example, Americans report an ideal CEO-to-worker pay ratio of 7:1 while the actual ratio is more than 300:1, and consumers prefer to buy from firms with lower pay ratios. Increasing awareness of current inequality shifts preferences toward policies that reduce it.
Michael I. Norton is the Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He has studied...