Featured New Publication: Shadows of Doubt
Economists Brendan O'Flaherty and Rajiv Sethi offer a comprehensive argument that stereotyping affects virtually all interactions informing America's criminal justice system.
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What Can Neuroscience Contribute to Economics?
Professor Michael Woodford’s Cognitive and Behavioral Economics Initiative is one of several faculty led research initiatives.
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The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Several Columbia faculty and alumni have been honored.
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Can We Improve State Effectiveness?
Professor Jonas Hjort speaks about individuals and organizations as sources of state effectiveness
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Why Should An Economist Look at Art?
Professor José Scheinkman on economics and the art market.
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Class of 2020 Undergraduate Prizes Awarded
Learn more about the Economics Department's undergraduate prizes.
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Ryan Kim Publishes “The Effect of the Credit Crunch on Output Price Dynamics”
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A/B Testing with Fat Tails
Jose Luis Montiel Olea , Eduardo M. Azevedo, Alex Deng, Justin Rao, E. Glen Weyl
Journal of Political Economy, June 2020
Jose Luis Montiel Olea , Eduardo M. Azevedo, Alex Deng, Justin Rao, E. Glen Weyl
Journal of Political Economy, June 2020
Cheap Talk with Transparent Motives
Elliot Lipnowski , Doron Ravid
Econometrica, Volume 88, Issue 4, July 2020
Elliot Lipnowski , Doron Ravid
Econometrica, Volume 88, Issue 4, July 2020
Apes, essences, and races: What natural scientists believed about human variation, 1700-1900
Brendan O'Flaherty , Jill S. Shapiro
Racism, Liberalism, and Economics, Eds. David Colander, Robert Prasch, and Falguni Sheth, January 2002
Brendan O'Flaherty , Jill S. Shapiro
Racism, Liberalism, and Economics, Eds. David Colander, Robert Prasch, and Falguni Sheth, January 2002
Peaceable Kingdoms and War Zones: Preemption, Ballistics and Murder in Newark
Brendan O'Flaherty , Rajiv Sethi
in The Economics of Crime: Lessons for and from Latin America, Eds. Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Edwards, and Ernesto Schargrodsky, January 2010
Brendan O'Flaherty , Rajiv Sethi
in The Economics of Crime: Lessons for and from Latin America, Eds. Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Edwards, and Ernesto Schargrodsky, January 2010
Civil Rights, Employment, and Race
Brendan O'Flaherty
The Oxford Handbook of Ethics and Economics, Ed. Mark D. White, June 2019
Brendan O'Flaherty
The Oxford Handbook of Ethics and Economics, Ed. Mark D. White, June 2019
Labor Market Polarization and the Great Divergence: Theory and Evidence
Don Davis , Eric Mengus, Tomasz K. Michalski
NBER Working Paper No. 26955, April 2020
Don Davis , Eric Mengus, Tomasz K. Michalski
NBER Working Paper No. 26955, April 2020
Crime and segregation
Brendan O'Flaherty , Rajiv Sethi
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Volume 64, Issue 3-4, January 2007
Brendan O'Flaherty , Rajiv Sethi
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Volume 64, Issue 3-4, January 2007
Racial stereotypes and robbery
Rajiv Sethi , Brendan O'Flaherty
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Volume 68, Issues 3-4, February 2008
Rajiv Sethi , Brendan O'Flaherty
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Volume 68, Issues 3-4, February 2008
The racial geography of street vice
Rajiv Sethi , Brendan O'Flaherty
Journal of Urban Economics, Volume 67, Number 3, May 2010
Rajiv Sethi , Brendan O'Flaherty
Journal of Urban Economics, Volume 67, Number 3, May 2010
