This paper documents the pervasiveness of plagiarism among Chinese graduate students and the implications for public service, revealing that plagiarists are more likely to enter and advance in the public sector, where they perform worse when holding power, and generate...

An examination of the performance of WWII fighter pilots demonstrates the power of incentives: A tiered, expanding system of status-based incentives can repeatedly leverage workers’ status concerns to extract effort.

Unconditional cash transfers may help attenuate the mother-child transmission of low executive function during early childhood. Providing unconditional cash support to low-income families could help close intergenerational skill gaps, particularly benefiting children at risk of inheriting cognitive and noncognitive disadvantages.