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Women Helping Women? Role-Model and Mentoring Effects on Female Ph.D. Student in Economics
Neumark, David - 1996
One potential method to increase the success of female graduate students in economics may be to encourage mentoring relationships between these students and female faculty members. Increased hiring of female faculty is viewed as one way to promote such mentoring relationships, perhaps because of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473105
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Maybe the Issue is not Who Economists Are, but What Economics Is and How it’s Taught : Changing Course Content and Structure to Improve Retention of Women in Undergraduate Economic...
Avery, Mallory; Caldwell, Jane; Schunn, Chris; Wolfe, … - 2021
were primarily messaging-centered around "who" economists are (e.g., nudging messages, instructor gender), we tested … by women in grades (particularly in Macro), and greatly reduced the gap by gender in the likelihood of continuing on to … around the gender of economists …
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Does teaching load affect faculty size?
Becker, William E.; Greene, William H.; Siegfried, John J. - 2009
Random effects estimates using panel data for 42 colleges and universities over 16 years reveal that the economics faculty size of universities offering a Ph.D. in economics is determined primarily by the long-run average number of Ph.D. degrees awarded annually; the number of full-time faculty...
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The interaction of publications and appointments : new evidence on academic economists in Germany
Beckmann, Klaus; Schneider, Andrea - 2009
Using a new panel dataset comprising publication and appointment data for 889 German academic economists over a quarter …
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Wie (un-) fair sind Ökonomen? : neue empirische Evidenz zur Marktbewertung und Rationalität
Ruske, René; Suttner, Johannes - 2012
The present document analyzes the differences between economists and non-economists with respect to the valuation of … fairness judgment of economists. For this purpose, we conducted a survey based on Frey et al. (1993) and Haucap and Just (2010 …. This fact could mainly be explained by self-selection effects of economists. Furthermore, this article shows that …
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Jack Soper : a pioneer in economic education
Clark, Jeff Ray; Hall, Joshua C.; Harrison, Ashley - 2015
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The happiness of economists : estimating the causal effect of studying economics on subjective well-being
Haucap, Justus; Heimeshoff, Ulrich - 2014
This is the first paper that studies the causal effect of studying economics on subjective well being. Based on a survey among 918 students of economics and other social sciences, we estimate the effects of studying in the different fields on individual life satisfaction. Controling for personal...
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Der Preis ist heiß, aber warum? : zum Einfluss des Ökonomiestudiums auf die Einschätzung der Fairness des Preissystems
Haucap, Justus; Just, Tobias - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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The incentives of future economists : striking a balance between tools and relevance
Boschini, Anne; Lindquist, Matthew J.; Pettersson, Jan; … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
As a contribution to the recent debate about graduate education in Economics, we have surveyed all students enrolled in the Stockholm Doctoral Program in Economics. We believe that this is a good representative of a strong European graduate program which in the early 1990's adopted a US-style...
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Does Economic Education Make a Difference in Congress? How Economists Vote on Trade
O'Roark, Brian - 2010
The general population has been shown to have at best a rudimentary knowledge of economics, while the making of economic policy is in the hands of those with a similar lack of understanding as shown in surveys of the political parities (Fuller, Alston, and Vaughan 1995; and Geide-Stevenson 2007)....
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