Prairie Portfolio
Economists are using a tool familiar to the financial industry to analyze climate change outcomes for conservationists.
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Changing Savings Habits
Can financial education in grade school have long-term effects?
Can Management Consulting Help Small Firms Grow?
Economic development efforts are best served by testing and refining assumptions about what works.
Focused Cardiac Care
What happens when hospitals specialize?
Lifetime Inequality
The variation in lifetime earnings and wealth is largely determined by skills acquired by age 23.
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Education of the Board
Role ambiguity dampens board member's commitments.
Going Overboard
Are foundations paying trustees too much money?
The Emotions of Aid
“One death is a tragedy; 1 million is a statistic,” Joseph Stalin is supposed to have said. The more people we see suffering, the less we care.
Overhead Isn’t Everything
How donors should think about nonprofit efficiency.
Building a Better Board
How nonprofit board size and independence relate to board performance.