Elijah Anderson’s seminal work on the “Code of the Street” details how individuals use violence to defend and gain respect in violent neighborhoods. We provide his account with choice-theoretic foundations to derive hypotheses on how individuals’ willingness to use violence depends on...

We penetrate the black box of post-acquisition integration by examining whether business unit leaders (BULs)--executives responsible for integrating and operating acquired targets--shape integration outcomes. Using natural language processing-based measures of realized integration outcomes and...

The value of being a "team player" is not fixed - it depends on how work is organized. Using 1.5 million matches among 30,459 players in temporary teams formed by quasi-random matchmaking, we measure each player's coordination ability as a stable trait distinct from solo technical skill. This...

This study investigates how skilled labor influences the development of the secondary sector in emerging economies, using China as a case study. We focus on the transitional process in which manufacturing growth shifts from labor-intensive expansion toward productivity-driven industrial...

This paper examines whether the success of prior aid projects affects the performance of subsequent ones based on a study of World Bank projects in Africa. While existing research has shown that aid effectiveness depends on macroeconomic conditions, institutional quality, and managerial...

This paper examines whether the success of prior aid projects affects the performance of subsequent ones based on a study of World Bank projects in Africa. While existing research has shown that aid effectiveness depends on macroeconomic conditions, institutional quality, and managerial...