This paper analyzes how temporary work assignments to poor areas affect preferences, beliefs, and career choices. We exploit random variation in the assignment of healthcare workers within a one-year mandatory rural service program in Peru. We show that healthcare workers that were assigned to poorer areas are more altruistic…
Law and computer science interact in critical ways within sociotechnical systems, and recognition is growing among computer scientists, legal scholars, and practitioners of significant gaps between these disciplines that create potential risks for privacy and data protection. These gaps need to be bridged to ensure in the…
CSDP AMERICAN POLITICS COLLOQUIUM
Sarah Anzia, Associate Professor of Public Policy & Political Science, Berkeley.
The Political Influence of City Employees: Civil Service Adoption in America
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, IG Patel Chair of Economics and Government at the London School of Economics; and chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
As modern life increasingly moves online, our ability to understand the impact of the Internet on society has grown critically dependent upon the benevolence of tech platforms. To date, corporate data sharing programs have largely failed to meet the needs of the research community aimed at this problem. In this talk, the…
