, economics, or law. Due to oversubscription of business, the university assigns the field of the paper in a standardized way that … is unrelated to student characteristics. We find that being assigned to write in economics raises the probability of … majoring in economics by 2.7 percentage points, which amounts to 18 percent of the share of students who major in economics. …

In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor's degree in Economics, arguably an … discriminating against female applicants. What we find is that girls are less likely to apply for a bachelor's degree in Economics to … Maths in high school and this may deter them from applying to study Economics at the university level. However, even among …

stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported … provides a new possibility for the complementary testing of theories across fields in economics. Third, we inquire how the … insights gained from the study of individual happiness in economics affect public policy. …

and the other major branches of World Jewry is discussed from an economic perspective. The economic underpinnings of …

This paper provides an overview of the relationship between economics and religion. It first considers the effects of …

waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation … individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five … innovation. …

capital is positively influenced by the size of the R&D sector, sheds new light on innovation and growth as well as income …