This article develops a framework to analyze voluntary marketing initiatives aimed at reducing children’s exposure to high-calorie packaged foods. Our empirical investigation focuses on children’s ready-to-eat cereal; we begin by estimating a limited awareness differentiated product demand...

This paper investigates how a retailer's store brand supply source impacts vertical pricing and supply channel protability. Using chain-level retail scanner data from major supermarkets in Boston prior to the leading retailer's divestiture of its store brand milk processing to a major brand...

In Thornburg v. Gingles, the Supreme Court provided the elemental test for vote dilution claims under § 2 of the Voting Rights Act. In part, § 2 requires Plaintiffs to prove that voting patterns within the challenged jurisdiction are polarized by race. Because most states do not track the race...