Height has long been recognized as being associated with better outcomes: the question is whether this association is causal. We use children's genetic variants as instrumental variables to deal with possible unobserved confounders and examine the effect of child/adolescent height on a wide...

It is often suggested that incentive schemes under moral hazard can be gamed by an agent with superior knowledge of the environment, and that deliberate lack of transparency about the incentive scheme can reduce gaming. We formally investigate these arguments. Ambiguous incentive schemes induce...

</titre> Drawing on a case study ? the randomized evaluation of the impact of Sky, a micro-insurance program in Cambodia ? this article examines the practical arrangements of collaboration and compromise between the constraints of academic ?rigor? and those of practitioners and between various forms...

Turn taking is observed in many field and laboratory settings. We study when and how turn taking can be supported as an equilibrium outcome in a class of repeated games, where the stage game is a symmetric two-player mixed-interest game with asymmetric joint-payoff-maximizing outcomes that may...

Gower and Krzanowski (1999) described the analysis of a multivariate dataset that violated the assumptions of normality for multivariate analysis of variance. They developed a method comprising two aspects: a graphical representation of the points in a fewer number of dimensions, known as...