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Rethinking Detroit

Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
2017
ABSTRACT:  We study the urban structure of the City of Detroit. Following several decades of decline, the city's current urban structure is clearly not optimal for its size, with a business district immediately surrounded by a ring of largely vacant ...

Behavioral science tools for energy and environmental policy

Elke Weber
2017
Elke Weber June, 2017 With Yoeli, E., Budescu, D.V., Carrico, A.R., Delmas, M.A., DeShazo, J.R., Ferraro, P.J., Forster, H.A., Kunreuther,H., Larrick, R.P., Lubell, M., Markowitz, E.M., Tonn, T., Vandenbergh, M.P. Behavioral Science and Policy. (in press) ...

Rising sea levels will boost moderate floods in some areas, severe floods in others

Michael Oppenheimer
2017
Michael Oppenheimer June, 2017 With Maya K. Buchanan, Robert E. Kopp; (Environmental Research Letters, Vol. 12 (2017) 064009) Climate Change Environment Environment and Energy Download File External Link ...

How States Are Addressing Uncertainty With 1332 Waivers

Heather Howard
2017
Heather Howard June, 2017 With Dan Meuse Health Domestic and Social Policy External Link ...

Estimating economic damage from climate change in the United States

Michael Oppenheimer
2017
Michael Oppenheimer June, 2017 With Solomon Hsiang, Robert Kopp, Amir Jina, James Rising, Michael Delgado, Shashank Mohan, D. J. Rasmussen, Robert Muir-Wood, Paul Wilson, Kate Larsen, Trevor Houser: Science, Vol 356, Issue 6345 Climate Change Finance ...

Lead and Juvenile Delinquency: New Evidence from Linked Birth, School and Juvenile Detention Records

Janet Currie
2017
ABSTRACT:  Using a unique dataset linking preschool blood lead levels (BLLs), birth, school, and detention data for 120,000 children born 1990-2004 in Rhode Island, we estimate the impact of lead on behavior: school suspensions and juvenile detention. We ...

Climate: Unmask temporal tradeoffs in climate policy debates

Michael Oppenheimer
2017
Michael Oppenheimer May, 2017 With Ilissa B. Ocko, Steven P. Hamburg, Daniel J. Jacob, David W. Keith, Nathaniel O. Keohane, Joseph D. Roy-Mayhew, Daniel P. Schrag, Stephen W. Pacala; Science Magazine, Vol. 356, Issue 6337 Climate Change Domestic and ...

Community trust reduces myopic decisions of low income individuals

Elke Weber
2017
Why do the poor make shortsighted choices in decisions that involve delayed payoffs? Foregoing immediate rewards for larger, later rewards requires that decision makers (i) believe future payoffs will occur and (ii) are not forced to take the immediate ...

Unmask temporal trade-offs in climate policy debates

Michael Oppenheimer
2017
ABSTRACT:  Global warming potentials (GWPs) have become an essential element of climate policy and are built into legal structures that regulate greenhouse gas emissions. This is in spite of a well-known shortcoming: GWP hides trade-offs between short- ...

Self reported outcomes and adverse events after medical abortion through online telemedicine: population based study in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland

James Trussell
2017
ABSTRACT:  Self sourced medical abortion using online telemedicine can be highly effective, and outcomes compare favourably with in clinic protocols. Reported rates of adverse events are low. Women are able to self identify the symptoms of potentially ...

Community trust reduces myopic decisions of low-income individuals

Elke Weber
2017
ABSTRACT:  More than 1.5 billion people worldwide live in poverty. Even in the United States, 14% live below the poverty line. Despite many policies and programs, poverty remains a domestic and global challenge; the number of US households earning less ...

Air quality, health, and climate implications of China’s synthetic natural gas development

Denise Mauzerall
2017
ABSTRACT:  Facing severe air pollution and growing dependence on natural gas imports, the Chinese government plans to increase coal-based synthetic natural gas (SNG) production. Although displacement of coal with SNG benefits air quality, it increases CO2 ...

Catch me if I fall: Cross-national differences in willingness to take financial risks as a function of social and state ‘cushioning‘.

Elke Weber
2017
Knowledge about the existence and source of national differences in willingness to take risks plays a vital role in ensuring successful communication, collaboration, and understanding across countries, from the personal to the organizational and political ...

Climate variability and migration in the Philippines

Michael Oppenheimer
2017
Michael Oppenheimer March, 2017 With Pratikshya Bohra-Mishra, Ruohong Cai, Shuaizhang Feng, Rachel Licker; Popul Environ (2017) 38:286–308DOI 10.1007/s11111-016-0263-x Climate Change Environment Migration Environment and Energy Climate Change ...

COP21 climate negotiators’ responses to climate model forecasts

Elke Weber
2017
Policymakers involved in climate change negotiations are key users of climate science. It is therefore vital to understand how to communicate scientific information most effectively to this group1. We tested how a unique sample of policymakers and ...

Translated attributes as choice architecture: Aligning objectives and choices through decision signposts

Elke Weber
2017
Every attribute can be expressed in multiple ways. For example, car fuel economy can be expressed as fuel efficiency (“miles per gallon”), fuel cost in dollars, or tons of greenhouse gases emitted. Each expression, or “translation,” highlights a different ...

States in the Developing World

Miguel Centeno
Atul Kohli
Deborah Yashar
2017
Miguel Centeno Atul Kohli Deborah Yashar February, 2017 International Development External Link ...

The dark side of meaning-making: How social exclusion leads to superstitious thinking

Alin Coman
2017
ABSTRACT:  This paper tests a meaning-making model of conspiratorial thinking by considering how one's search for meaning mediates between social exclusion and the endorsement of conspiratorial (Study 1) and superstitious (Study 2) beliefs. In Study ...

IPCC Reasons for Concern regarding climate change risks

Michael Oppenheimer
2017
ABSTRACT:  The reasons for concern framework communicates scientific understanding about risks in relation to varying levels of climate change. The framework, now a cornerstone of the IPCC assessments, aggregates global risks into ve categories as a ...

Are Publicly Insured Children Less Likely to be Admitted to Hospital than the Privately Insured (and Does it Matter)?

Janet Currie
2017
ABSTRACT:  There is continuing controversy about the extent to which publicly insured children are treated differently than privately insured children, and whether differences in treatment matter. We show that on average, hospitals are less likely to ...

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