Research

Improving Accuracy, Reliability, and Interpretability of Distributed Computing

Research by Botond Szabo is aimed at giving theoretical underpinnings to the black box procedures used to cope with the unprecedented explosion of available data

Understand Social Media, and You Won't Be Harmed by Them

Luca Braghieri was granted funding by the European Research Council to measure the effects of social media and mitigate their downsides

How Honesty Drain Impoverishes Places Where Rule Abiding is Low

Honest people tend to migrate towards honest areas, depriving their places of origin of human capital, according to research by Massimo Anelli. With detrimental effects on productivity, growth, and the quality of politicians

Criminal Networks: Understanding and Combating the Modern Hydras

Daniele Durante has secured funding from the European Research Council to develop cuttingedge statistical models and methods for studying criminal networks

The Bold, not the Capable, Make the Most of Big Cities

Self confidence, and not necessarily ability, drives young workers to locate in a big city, according to analysis by Ottaviano, De la Roca and Puga. With negative, longterm consequences for those who settle for small cities because of inaccurate self assessment

How Media Magnifies Terrorism's Damage to Human Capital

A study by Alfano and Goerlach found that households exposed to media in Kenya overestimated fatality risks by a factor of 11.8 and more often refrained from enrolling their kids in school during a terrorist wave in the late 2000s