We investigate the relationship between social capital and the decision to flee after a fatal road accident. This event is unplanned, and the decision is taken under great emotional distress and time pressure, thus providing a test of whether social capital matters for behaviour in extreme...

This paper examines peer effects on students' gender norm perceptions and skills formation. I use a Uruguayan nationally representative survey of 9th grade students and exploit the quasi-random variation in the proportion of female peers across classes within schools for causal identification....

The discipline of Law and Economics seeks to scientifically analyze law. This Article uses the social norms aspect of the Law and Economics field to examine marijuana prohibition in order to show that policymakers should consider changing the law to better account for social norms. First, the...

There is overwhelming evidence that the opioid crisis which has cost hundreds of thousands of lives and trillions of dollars (and counting) has been created or exacerbated by webs of influence woven by several pharmaceutical companies. These webs involve health professionals, patient advocacy...