Browsing Research and Writings by Affiliation of Duke Author(s) "Sanford School of Public Policy"
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80 years of trade-offs in college sports
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9/11 Museum Should Not Conflate Islam and Terrorism
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A Fair and Impartial Jury? The Role of Age in Jury Selection and Trial Outcomes
(Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID), 2012-02-01)This paper uses data from over 700 felony trials in Sarasota and Lake Counties in Florida from 2000-2010 to examine the role of age in jury selection and trial outcomes. The results of the analysis imply that prosecutors ... -
A Jury of Her Peers: The Impact of the First Female Jurors on Criminal Convictions
(Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID), 2016-02-10)This paper uses an original data set of more than 3000 cases from 1918 to 1926 in the Central Criminal Courts of London to study the effect of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919. Implemented in 1921, this Act ... -
A sensible debate about radical Islam
(Atlanta Journal Constitution, 2011-02-10) -
Academic Peer Effects with Different Group Assignment Policies: Residential Tracking versus Random Assignment
(Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID), 2016-03-03)I study the relative academic performance of students tracked or randomly assigned to South African university dormitories. Tracking reduces low-scoring students' GPAs but has little effect on high-scoring students. This ... -
Acting Like Americans on Ramadan
(Huffington Post, 2012-07-20) -
Anti-Terror Lessons of Muslim-Americans
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Blunt threat now a credible option
(Raleigh News and Observer, 2006-12-17) -
Breaking Down Obama's Grand Strategy
(National Interest, 2014-06-23) -
Call Me Maybe: Experimental Evidence on Using Mobile Phones to Survey Microenterprises
(Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID), 2016-07-27)High-frequency data is useful to measure volatility, reduce recall bias, and measure dynamic treatment effects. We conduct the first experimental evaluation of high-frequency phone surveys in a developing country or with ... -
Capture won't snuff al-Qaeda
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Carbon Market Cooperation in Northeast Asia: Assessing Challenges and Overcoming Barriers
(2018-07-09)China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea are emerging as major players in the global carbon trading landscape. As Northeast Asia’s biggest industrial economies, these three countries are connected through deep commercial ... -
Carbon markets: effective policy?--Response.
(Science, 2014-06-27) -
Cheney's misfiring security critique
(Raleigh News and Observer, 2009-04-05) -
Closing the Doors on GITMO
(Philadelphia Inquirer, 2008-10-28) -
College Attrition and the Dynamics of Information Revelation
(Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID), 2016-05-31)This paper investigates the role played by informational frictions in college and the workplace. We estimate a dynamic structural model of schooling and work decisions, where individuals have imperfect information about ... -
Commemorating 9/11
(Huffington Post, 2013-09-02) -
Cytoplasmic inheritance redux.
(Adv Child Dev Behav, 2013)Since the early twentieth century, inheritance was seen as the inheritance of genes. Concurrent with the acceptance of the genetic theory of inheritance was the rejection of the idea that the cytoplasm of the oocyte could ...
