Algorithmic Mechanism Design studies the design of algorithms in settings where participants have their own incentives. For example, when executing an ad auction, the auctioneer/designer wants to achieve as much profit as possible, but each advertiser wants the best impressions for the lowest price (and may manipulate an…
Kristina Douglass is an archaeologist who investigates how people, land- and seascapes co-evolve. She is the Joyce and Doug Sherwin Early Career Professor in the Rock Ethics Institute and Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African Studies at Penn State University. She is a Penn State Institutes for Energy and the…
Deaths of despair, morbidity and emotional distress continue to rise in the US. The increases are largely borne by those without a four-year college degree—the majority of American adults. For many less-educated Americans, the economy and society are no longer providing the basis for a good life. Concurrently, all-cause…
Marc Knapper is a top American diplomat and expert in Asian affairs currently serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Korea and Japan. He has served in South Korea as Chargé d’Affaires, the embassy's top post, from 2017-2018 and previously as deputy chief of mission in Seoul. Prior posts include Tokyo, Hanoi, and Baghdad. Mr…
Hispanics in the United States are a highly heterogeneous population encompassing long established citizens; newly arrived immigrants; and people boasting a multiplicity of national ancestries. As a whole, they comprise 18.5 percent of the U.S. population. Like African Americans, they are overrepresented among those who have…
