We study whether digital platforms for high-skilled professionals level the playing field or reproduce traditional gender inequalities. Using high-frequency data on physicians, we examine gender differences in labor supply, pricing, patient engagement, and platform visibility. Although the...

We examine the labour market, welfare receipt and health effects of a reform to the Irish State Pension system which increased the age at which some workers could claim a State Pension. We use longitudinal data on ageing in Ireland and a causal identification strategy based on the random date of...

What ignited humanity's momentous ascent from millennia of stagnation to an era of sustained economic growth? And what are the roots of the vast disparities in the wealth of nations? These enduring mysteries, which have preoccupied scholars across generations, lie at the core of Unified Growth...

We review new developments in formal theory as applied to racial stratification. Across this literature, we discuss how discrimination produces benefits for advantaged groups at a cost to marginalized groups, how groups resolve conflicts between individual and collective interests, how direct...

Upper secondary certificates are essential for education systems. They recognise students' skills and facilitate access to higher education, training and work. As completion of upper secondary education has become the minimum expected level of attainment for life after school, this has...

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 2: PRIMARY PREFERENCES -- CHAPTER 3: BORN TO EXPLORE -- CHAPTER 4: POSITIVE ILLUSIONS -- CHAPTER 5: RANDOMIZATION -- CHAPTER 6: SOCIAL EXPLORATION -- CHAPTER 7: EXPLORATION THROUGH SIMULATION -- CHAPTER 8: EXPLORATION THROUGH DELEGATION -- CHAPTER 9: DEEP...