MIT Open Access Articles: Recent submissions
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Can Development Programs Counter Insurgencies? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Afghanistan
(American Economic Association, 2025-07)We exploit a randomized controlled trial conducted between 2007 and 2011 to identify the effect of Afghanistan's largest local governance and development program on the strength of the insurgency. We find that the program ... -
Wage Stagnation and the Decline of Standardized Pay Rates, 1974–1991
(American Economic Association, 2023-01)Using new establishment-by-occupation microdata, we show that the use of discretionary wage setting significantly expanded in the 1970s and 1980s. Increasingly, wages for blue-collar workers were not standardized by job ... -
Multiscale affinity maturation simulations to elicit broadly neutralizing antibodies against HIV
(Public Library of Science, 2022-04-22)The design of vaccines against highly mutable pathogens, such as HIV and influenza, requires a detailed understanding of how the adaptive immune system responds to encountering multiple variant antigens (Ags). Here, we ...
