Kevin Lewis, National Affairs Journalist Profile

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Social Studies: Unintended consequences of mandatory voting; debate skills in the workplace

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Kevin Lewis

Making guys vote againMany democracy activists and political scientists have argued for making voting compulsory, in part because they presume it would increase the representation of disadvantaged socioeconomic groups. However, a study by a political scientist at the University of Georgia suggests that advocates should be careful what they wish for. He argues that compulsory voting has always boosted turnout among men more than women.
Job Assignment

2 weeks ago | nationalaffairs.com | Kevin Lewis

Findings April 11, 2025 Artificial Intelligence and the Labor MarketMenaka Hampole et al. NBER Working Paper, February 2025Abstract:We leverage recent advances in NLP to construct measures of workers' task exposure to AI and machine learning technologies over the 2010 to 2023 period that vary across firms and time.
Running the Company

2 weeks ago | nationalaffairs.com | Kevin Lewis

April 10, 2025 Silent Suffering: Using Machine Learning to Measure CEO DepressionSung-Yuan (Mark) Cheng & Nargess GolshanJournal of Accounting Research, May 2025, Pages 689-767Abstract:We introduce a novel measure of CEO depression by applying machine learning models that analyze vocal acoustic features from CEOs' conference call recordings. Our research was preregistered via the Journal of Accounting Research's registration-based editorial process.
Border Flows

2 weeks ago | nationalaffairs.com | Kevin Lewis

April 09, 2025 US Enforcement Politics and Remittance Dynamics in MexicoMatthew Smoldt, Valerie Mueller & Cameron ThiesJournal of Politics, January 2025, Pages 143-157Abstract:Prior research indicates the enforcement of immigration policy by the host country affects immigrants’ political behavior. Yet, its effect on their economic behavior -- namely, remittances -- remains understudied. To fill this gap, we theorize on remittances’ political determinants in the host country.
Rational

2 weeks ago | nationalaffairs.com | Kevin Lewis

April 08, 2025 Differences in Learning Across the Lifespan Emerge via Resource-Rational ComputationsRasmus Bruckner et al. Psychological Review, forthcomingAbstract:Learning accurate beliefs about the world is computationally demanding but critical for adaptive behavior across the lifespan.
Preferred Providers

2 weeks ago | nationalaffairs.com | Kevin Lewis

April 07, 2025 The Rise of Healthcare JobsJoshua Gottlieb et al. NBER Working Paper, March 2025Abstract:Healthcare employment has grown more than twice as fast as the labor force since 1980, overtaking retail trade to become the largest industry by employment in 2009. We document key facts about the rise of healthcare jobs.
Nurture

2 weeks ago | nationalaffairs.com | Kevin Lewis

April 06, 2025 The Social Division of Care Work Time Over Half a CenturyPilar Gonalons-Pons & Zohra Ansari-ThomasDemography, forthcomingAbstract:This study introduces a demographic framework to analyze the social division of care work time, defined as the sum of paid and unpaid care work time provided to children and adults in a population.
Social Questions

2 weeks ago | nationalaffairs.com | Kevin Lewis

Findings April 05, 2025 Self-Invitation Hesitation: How and Why People Fail to Ask to Join the Plans of OthersJulian Givi et al. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, forthcomingAbstract:Spending time with others affords numerous benefits. One way a person can spend time with others is through a self-invitation -- asking to join the plans of others.
Electoral Mandate

3 weeks ago | nationalaffairs.com | Kevin Lewis

April 04, 2025 Who Runs When? Federica IzzoJournal of Politics, forthcomingAbstract:When are good candidates willing to run for office? I analyze a dynamic model of elections in which voters learn about politicians' competence by observing governance outcomes. In each period, the country faces either a crisis or business as usual. A crisis has two key features: it exacerbates the importance of the officeholder's competence and, as a consequence, the informativeness of his performance.
Trending Opportunity

3 weeks ago | nationalaffairs.com | Kevin Lewis

April 03, 2025 Male coaches increase the risk-taking of female teams -- Evidence from the NCAARené Böheim, Christoph Freudenthaler & Mario LacknerLabour Economics, June 2025Abstract:We analyze the effect of the coach’s gender on risk-taking in women’s NCAA basketball teams. Coach’s gender has a sizable and significant effect on the team’s risk-taking, a finding that is robust to an instrumental variable approach.