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2012: “Keep Government Out of My Medicare": The Elusive Search for Popular Support of Taxes and Social Spending

Gillian Lester

2012: Prices Matter: Comparing Two Tests of Adverse Selection in Health Insurance

Rachel Polimeni and David Levine

2012: An Exceptional Nation? American Political Values in Comparative Perspective

Jerome Karabel and Daniel Laurison

2012: The Rising Strength of Management, High Unemployment and Slow Growth: Revisiting Okun’s Law

Michael Reich

2012: The Transformation of Mortgage Finance and the Industrial Roots of the Mortgage Meltdown

Neil Fligstein and Adam Goldstein

2012: Sucker Punched by the Invisible Hand

Neil Fligstein and Adam Goldstein

2012: Teacher Quality Policy When Supply Matters

Jesse Rothstein

2012: The Psychological Basis of Quality Decision Making

Charlan Jeanne Nemeth

2012: Consequences of Beliefs about the Malleability of Creativity

Alexander J. O'Connor, Charlan J. Nemeth and Satoshi Akutsu

2012: The Emergence of a Finance Culture in American Households, 1989-2007

Neil Fligstein and Adam Goldstein

2012: Who is Willing to Sacrifice Sacred Values for Money and Social Status? Gender Differences in Reactions to Taboo Trade-offs

Jessica A. Kennedy and Laura J. Kray

2012: Why Weak Ties' Help and Strong Ties' Don't: Reconsidering Why Tie Strength Matters

Sandra Susan Smith

2012: Why Was Short-Time Work Unattractive During the Crisis?

Pauline Gonthier

2012: Job Categories and Geographic Identity: A Category Stereotype Explanation for Occupational Agglomeration

Ming D. Leung

2012: ReadyMade Analysis of Berkeley Scholars to Cal Program

Kate Belohlav and Clair Brown

2012: Minimum Wage Shocks, Employment Flows and Labor Market Frictions

Arindrajit Dube, T. William Lester and Michael Reich

2012: Apples to Oranges: How Category Overlap Facilitates Commensuration in an Online Market Environment

Ming D. Leung

2012: What Impedes Efficient Adoption of Products? Evidence from Randomized Variation in Sales Offers for Improved Cookstoves in Uganda

David Levine and Carolyn Cotterman

2012: The Labor Market Four Years Into the Crisis: Assessing Structural Explanations

Jesse Rothstein

2012: Searching For Work with a Criminal Record

Sandra Susan Smith and Nora C. R. Broege

2012: From Motherhood Penalties to Husband Premia: The New Challenge for Gender Equality and Family Policy, Lessons from Norway

Trond Petersen, Andrew Penner and Geir Høgnes

2012: A status-enhancement account of overconfidence

Cameron Anderson, Sebastien Brion, Don A. Moore and Jessica A. Kennedy

2012: Does Customer Auditing Help Chinese Workers?

Goujun He and Jeffrey Perloff

2012: ReadyMade Analysis of Hospital de la Familia’s Cataract Surgery Program in Guatemala

Clair Brown, Eric Freeman, Kate Belohlav, Ariel Chait and Lawrence Thal

2012: Cultural Effects on Employee Loyalty in Japan and The U. S.: Individual- or Organization-Level? An Analysis of Plant and Employee Survey Data from the 80’s

James R. Lincoln and Bernadette Doerr

2011: Outlier Nation? American Exceptionalism and the Quality of Life in the United States

Jerome Karabel and Daniel Laurison

2011: The Two‐Tiered Politics of Financial Reform in the United States

John T. Wooley and J. Nicholas Ziegler

2011: Unemployment Insurance and Job Search in the Great Recession

Jesse Rothstein

2011: The Local Ladder Effect: Social Status and Subjective Well-Being

Cameron Anderson, Michael W. Kraus and Dacher Keltner

2011: Catalyst of Disaster: Subprime Mortgage Securitization and the Roots of the Great Recession

Neil Fligstein and Adam Goldstein

2011: European Integration, Nationalism, and European Identity

Neil Fligstein, Alina Polyakova and Wayne Sandholtz

2011: Berkeley ReadyMade Impact Assessment: Developing an Effective and Efficient Assessment Template for Social Enterprises

Clair Brown, Ariel Chait and Eric Freeman

2011: Do Frictions Matter in the Labor Market? Accessions, Separations, and Minimum Wage Effects

Arindrajit Dube, T. William Lester and Michael Reich

2011: Job Creation: A Review of Policies and Strategies

Adam Cray, Tram Nguyen, Carol Pranka, Christine Schildt, Julie Scheu and Erika Rincon Whitcomb

2011: Where Are all the Immigrant Organizations? Reassessing the Scope of Civil Society for Immigrant Communities

Shannon Gleeson and Irene Bloemraad

2011: If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You the Boss? Explaining the Persistent Vertical Gender Gap in Management

Heather A. Haveman and Lauren S. Beresford

2011: Latin America’s New World of Work: Changing Traits of Work and Problem Solving

Ruth Berins Collier and Brian Palmer-Rubin

2011: Business Groups, Networks, And Embeddedness: Innovation And Implementation Alliances In Japanese Electronics, 1985-1998

James R. Lincoln and Didier Guillot

2011: U.S. Health Care and Real Health in Comparative Perspective: Lessons from Abroad

Harold L. Wilensky

2011: Who Are the Entrepreneurs: The Elite or Everyman?

Heather A. Haveman, Jacob Habinek and Leo A. Goodman

2011: Immigrant Integration and Policy in the United States: A Loosely Stitched Patchwork

Irene Bloemraad and Els de Graauw

2011: Social Reactions to Overconfidence: Do the Costs of Overconfidence Outweigh the Benefits?

Jessica A. Kennedy, Cameron Anderson and Don A. Moore

2011: Compensation Structure and the Creation of Exploratory Knowledge in Technology Firms

Victor Cui, Waverly W. Ding and Yoshio Yanadori

2011: Gender Bias in Negotiators’ Ethical Decision Making

Laura Kray

2011: Male Pragmatism in Ethical Decision Making

Laura J. Kray and Michael P. Haselhuhn

2011: Permanent Income and the Black-White Test Score Gap

Jesse Rothstein and Nathan Wozny

2011: Compensation Structure and the Creation of Exploratory Knowledge in Technology Firms

Victor Cui, Waverly W. Ding and Yoshio Yanadori

2010: Minimum Wage Effects Across State Borders: Estimates Using Contiguous Counties

Arindrajit Dube, T. William Lester and Michael Reich

2010: Is it Labor’s Turn to Globalize? Twenty-first Century Opportunities and Strategic Responses

Peter Evans

2010: Managing Knowledge Workers in Global Value Chains

Clair Brown and Greg Linden

2010: Inequality at Work: The Effect of Peer Salaries on Job Satisfaction

David Card, Alexandre Mas, Enrico Moretti and Emmanuel Saez

2010: The Press and the Public Sphere: Magazine Entrepreneurs in Antebellum America

Heather A. Haveman, Jacob Habinek and Leo A. Goodman

2010: The Living New Deal: The Unsung Benefits of the New Deal for the United States and California

Richard A. Walker and Gray Brechin

2010: The Changing Face of the U.S. Labor Force: The Composition of the Unemployed and Long-term Unemployed in Tough Labor Markets

Sylvia A. Allegretto and Devon Lynch

2010: From Bench to Board: Gender Differences in University Scientists' Participation in Commercial Science

Waverly W. Ding, Fiona Murray and Toby E. Stuart

2010: How Do Employers React to a Pay-or-Play Mandate? Early Evidence from San Francisco

Carrie Colla, William Dow and Arindrajit Dube

2010: Do Minimum Wages Really Reduce Teen Employment? Accounting for Heterogeneity and Selectivity in State Panel Data

Sylvia Allegretto, Arindrajit Dube and Michael Reich

2010: Press and Pulpit: The Growth of Religious Magazines in Antebellum America

Adam Goldstein and Heather A. Haveman

2010: Minority Influence Theory

Charlan Jeanne Nemeth

2010: The Within-Job Motherhood Wage Penalty in Norway, 1979–1996

Trond Petersen, Andrew M. Penner and Geir Høgnsnes

2010: American Exceptionalism and the Quality of Life in the United States: Some Preliminary Statistical Observations

Jerome Karabel

2010: The Impact of Founder Professional Education Background on the Adoption of Open Science by For-Profit Biotechnology Firms

Waverly Ding

2010: Do We Know Who Values Us? Dyadic Meta-Accuracy in the Perception of Professional Relationships

Hillary Anger Elfenbein, Noah Eisenkraft and Waverly Ding

2010: Overconfidence and the Attainment of Status in Groups

Cameron Anderson and Sebastien Brion

2010: Press and Pulpit: Competition, Co-operation and the Growth of Religious Magazines in Antebellum America

Adam Goldstein and Heather A. Haveman

2010: The Rise and Fall of the Nonconventional Mortgage Industry

Adam Goldstein and Neil Fligstein

2010: California, Pivot of the Great Recession

Ashok Bardhan and Richard A. Walker

2010: Employee Replacement Costs

Arindrajit Dube, Eric Freeman and Michael Reich

2010: Commitment is a Two-Way Street: Toyota, California and NUMMI

Harley Shaiken

2010: The Anatomy of the Mortgage Securitization Crisis

Neil Fligstein and Adam Goldstein

2010: Can Joe the Plumber Support Redistribution? Law, Social Preferences, and Sustainable Policy Design

Gillian Lester

2010: Earnings Determination and Taxes: Evidence from a Cohort-Based Payroll Tax Reform in Greece

Emmanuel Saez, Manos Matsaganis and Panos Tsakloglou

2010: Optimal Minimum Wage Policy in Competitive Labor Markets

David Lee and Emmanuel Saez

2010: Avoiding the Consequences of Repeated Misconduct: Stigma’s Licence and Stigma’s Transferability

Celia Moore, H. Colleen Stuart and Jo-Ellen Pozner

2010: U.S. Navy Promotion and Retention by Race and Sex

Amos Golan, William Greene and Jeffrey Perloff

2010: U.S. Navy Promotion and Retention by Race and Sex

Amos Golan, William Greene and Jeffrey Perloff

2010: U.S. Navy Promotion and Retention by Race and Sex

Amos Golan, William Greene and Jeffrey Perloff

2010: Toward a General Theory of Strategic Action Fields

Neil Fligstein and Doug McAdam