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nationalaffairs.com | Kevin Lewis
May 07, 2025 Reexamining Lackluster Productivity Growth in ConstructionDaniel Garcia & Raven MolloyRegional Science and Urban Economics, June 2025Abstract:Of all major industries, construction is the only one to have registered negative average productivity growth since 1987. Mechanically, this lackluster performance owes to the fact that indexes measuring the cost of building a constant-quality structure have risen much faster than those measuring the cost of producing other goods.
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nationalaffairs.com | Kevin Lewis
May 05, 2025 The Political Court: Newspaper Coverage, Appointment Politics, and Public Support of the United States Supreme Court, 1980-2023Joshua Boston & Christopher KrewsonPolitical Communication, forthcomingAbstract:The public expects courts to behave as legal institutions. But news media coverage of courts often contradicts that expectation.
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nationalaffairs.com | Kevin Lewis
May 06, 2025 The rising income gradient in life expectancy in Sweden over six decadesJohannes Hagen et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 8 April 2025Abstract:This study examines the long-term association between income and life expectancy in Sweden between 1960 and 2021. The study is based on register data that include all Swedish permanent residents aged 40 y and older.
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nationalaffairs.com | Kevin Lewis
May 04, 2025 Threading the Needle of Corporate Activism: How Firms Frame Their Stances on Polarizing Social IssuesSung Hun (Brian) Chung, Kate Odziemkowska & Alessandro PiazzaAcademy of Management Journal, forthcomingAbstract:Corporate activism, or the active involvement of business in contested social and political issues, presents strategic challenges for organizations. Despite the risks of stakeholder backlash, corporate activism is on the rise.
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nationalaffairs.com | Kevin Lewis
May 02, 2025 The Role of Political Partisanship and Moral Beliefs in Leadership SelectionHarrison Miller et al. Social Psychological and Personality Science, forthcomingAbstract:What roles do political partisanship and moral beliefs play in people's support for particular leaders?
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nationalaffairs.com | Kevin Lewis
May 03, 2025 More Error than Minority: Gendered Burial Practices Align with Peptide-based Sex Identification in Early Bronze Age Burials in Central EuropeKatharina Rebay-Salisbury et al. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, forthcomingAbstract:The Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age (c. 2900-1600 BC) of Central Europe are characterized by burial practices that strongly differentiate between men and women through body placement and orientation in the grave, as well as through grave goods.
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nationalaffairs.com | Kevin Lewis
April 29, 2025 People Are More Moral in Uncertain EnvironmentsYiting Chen & Songfa ZhongEconometrica, March 2025, Pages 439-462Abstract:We conduct a series of experiments and document a robust behavioral pattern whereby people behave more morally in uncertain environments than degenerate deterministic ones. We show that this pattern is weakened when the moral implication of behavior is diminished or when uncertainty pertains to others rather than oneself.
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nationalaffairs.com | Kevin Lewis
April 28, 2025 Does Physician-Hospital Vertical Integration Signal Care-Coordination? Evidence from Mover-Stayer Analysis of Commercially Insured EnrolleesWilliam Encinosa & Avi DorJournal of Health Economics, May 2025Abstract:The sharp growth in physician groups being purchased by hospitals has sparked extensive policy debate, with little evidence on the merits of such integration. We fill the gap by examining care-coordination under integration.
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nationalaffairs.com | Kevin Lewis
April 30, 2025 Did shale gas green the U.S. economy? David Lindequist & Samuel SelentEnergy Economics, May 2025Abstract:Since the mid-2000s, hydraulic fracturing (’fracking’) has significantly altered the U.S. energy landscape through a surge in shale gas production. Employing synthetic control methods, we evaluate the effect of the shale gas boom on U.S. emissions and various energy metrics. We find that the boom reduced average annual greenhouse gas emissions per capita by roughly 7.5%.
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nationalaffairs.com | Kevin Lewis
April 24, 2025 Do People Lead Men and Women Differently? Multimethod Evidence That Group Gender Affects Leaders’ DominanceHolly Engstrom et al. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, forthcomingAbstract:Leaders’ behavior can powerfully alter group outcomes. In a programmatic series of preregistered studies, we provide the first rigorous test of whether and why leaders behave differently toward groups of men versus women.
