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| Sendhil Mullainathan
March 3, 2018, "The working world is unfair to many women, yet even when they succeed, they must confront another series of challenges. Their hard-won successes are taxed in ways that men's are not. The taxes I'm talking about aren't paid in dollars and cents or imposed by the government. They take the form of annoyance and misery and are levied by individuals, very often by loved ones. I call these impositions taxes because they take away some…
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Productivity and Selection of Human Capital with Machine Learning. Michael Luca, Sendhil Mullainathan, 2016, Paper. "Economists have become increasingly interested in studying the nature of production functions in social policy applications, Y = f(L, K), with the goal of improving productivity. For example what is the effect on student learning from hiring an additional teacher, ∂Y/∂L, in theory (Lazear, 2001) or in practice (Krueger, 2003)?…
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Sendhil Mullainathan, 2014 Sheffrin Lecture at UC Davis. Sendhil Mullainathan, May 14, 2014, Video. "2014 - Sheffrin Lecture - UC Davis..." Link Verified October 18, 2014
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Sendhil, Mullainathan, Professor of Economics, Harvard University. Sendhil Mullainathan, January 24, 2014, Video. "World Economics Forum - India..." Link Verified October 13, 2014
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Why is Saving Money So Hard? Sendhil Mullainathan, December 17, 2013, Opinion. "Sendhil Mullainathan, a professor of economics at Harvard University and a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant, answers the big question of why setting aside money for the future is so difficult. Why is saving so hard? There’s a popular image of people who don’t save for the future as lacking in self-control. But the reason saving is so hard has less…
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So Easy to Sign Up, and So Hard to Cancel. Sendhil Mullainathan, December 7, 2013, Opinion. "When I moved to a new apartment a few months ago, I saw firsthand both the power and the peril of the profit motive. Setting up cable service in the new place was a breeze. I filled out a short form online and that was it. My apartment had a cable Internet connection before I unpacked the dishes..."…
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FI2020 Global Forum: Why Financial Inclusion is More Important Than We Ever Knew. Sendhil Mullainathan, December 5, 2013, Video. "Center for Financial Inclusion...." Link
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FI2020 Global Forum: Sendhil Mullainathan. Sendhil Mullainathan, December 4, 2013, Video. "The behavioral economics of poverty and implications for financial inclusion from the newly-released book Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much..." Link Verified October 13, 2014
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GEM13: Sendhil Mullainathan on Scarcity. Sendhil Mullainathan, November 11, 2013, Video. "At the 2013 Global Empowerment Meeting, Harvard University economics professor Sendhil Mullainathan explains how scarcity - and our flawed responses to it - shapes our lives, our society, and our culture. Research from behavioral science and economics shows that scarcity generates a similar psychological reaction for everyone struggling to manage with less…
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The Mental Strain of Making Do With Less. Sendhil Mullainathan, September 21, 2013, Opinion. "Diets don’t just reduce weight, they can reduce mental capacity. In other words, dieting can make you dumber. Understanding why this is the case can illuminate a range of experiences, including something as far removed from voluntary calorie restriction as the ordeal of outright poverty..."…