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A Comparison of Product Price Targeting and Other Monetary Anchor Options, for Commodity Exporters in Latin America: by Frankel, Jeffrey; Seven possible nominal variables are considered as candidates to be the anchor or target for monetary policy. The context is countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), which tend to be price...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: November 2011 More

Unpacking the Black Box of Causality: Learning about Causal Mechanisms from Experimental and Observational Studies: by Tingley, Dustin; Imai, Kosuke; Keele, Luke; Identifying causal mechanisms is a fundamental goal of social science. Researchers seek to study not only whether one variable affects another but also how such a causal relationship arises. Yet...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: November 2011 More

Causal Mediation Analysis: by Tingley, Dustin; Hicks, Raymond; Estimating the mechanisms that connect explanatory variables with the explained variable, also known as “mediation analysis,” is central to a variety of social-science fields, especially...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: October 2011 More

Massachusetts' Health Care Reform and Emergency Department Utilization: by Chandra, Amitabh; Does an expansion of health insurance increase or decrease use of the emergency department (ED)? Both predictions can be justified logically. On the one hand, research on patient cost sharing...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: September 2011 More

Offshoring and the Role of Trade Agreements: by Antràs, Pol; The rise of offshoring of intermediate inputs raises important questions for commercial policy. Do the distinguishing features of offshoring introduce novel reasons for trade policy intervention?...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: September 2011 More

Fifty Years of Pursuing a Healthy Society in Japan: by Reich, Michael R.; Takemi, Keizo; Ikegami, Naoki; In this Series in The Lancet, we review the past 50 years of Japan’s universal health coverage, identify the major challenges of today, and propose paths for the future, within the context of...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: September 2011 More

The Dark Side of the Future: An Experimental Test of Commitment Problems in Bargaining: by Tingley, Dustin; While most existing theoretical and experimental literatures focus on how a high probability of repeated play can lead to more socially efficient outcomes (for instance, using the result that...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: September 2011 More

Destabilizing the American Racial Order: by Hochschild, Jennifer L.; Weaver, Vesla; Burch, Traci; Since America’s racial disparities remain as deep-rooted after Barack Obama’s election as they were before, it was only a matter of time until the myth of postracism exploded in our collective...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: April 2011 More

Legal Transnationalism: The Relationship between Transnational Social Movement Building and International Law: by Kay, Tamara; This article examines the compelling enigma of how the introduction of a new international law, the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC), helped stimulate labor cooperation and...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: April 2011 More

The Perfect Dictatorship? South Korea versus Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico: by Domínguez, Jorge I.; In 1959 South Korea was mired in poverty. By 1979 it had a powerful industrial economy and a vibrant civil society in the making, which would lead to a democratic breakthrough eight years later. The...; Publication Type: Book Chapter; Published Date: April 2011 More