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The happiness of economists: Estimating the causal effect of studying economics on subjective well-being
Haucap, Justus; Heimeshoff, Ulrich - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 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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What drives the relevance and reputation of economics journals? An update from a survey among economists
Haucap, Justus; Muck, Johannes - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2013
' reputation among German economists and indirectly also their perceived relevance, but the effect on reputation is more than twice …
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Why are economists so different? Nature, nurture, and gender effects in a simple trust game
Haucap, Justus; Müller, Andrea - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2014
We analyze the behavior of 577 economics and law students in a simple binary trust experiment. While economists are … study) from female economists, the gap between them also widens more drastically over the course of their study compared to …
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