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Economics, History, and Causation
Morck, Randall - 2011
Economics and history both strive to understand causation: economics using instrumental variables econometrics and …
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How Does the Market Use Citation Data? The Hirsch Index in Economics
Ellison, Glenn - 2010
A large literature following Hirsch (2005) has proposed citation-based indexes that could be used to rank academics. This paper examines how well several such indexes match labor market outcomes using data on the citation records of young tenured economists at 25 U.S. departments. Variants of...
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Economics and Reality
Uhlig, Harald - 2010
economics and reality. More precisely, it asks how reality in the form empirical evidence does or does not influence economic … from general to specific. For the general perspective, I examine the following four points of view. First, economics is a … science. Second, economics is an art. Third, economics is a competition. Forth, economics politics. I then examine four …
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The Economic History of the <i>American Economic Review</i> : A Century's Explosion of Economics Research
Margo, Robert A. - 2010
a multi-purpose publication with highly disparate content. Over time the economics profession expanded and more … economics research was produced, primarily in the form of journal articles. The AER accommodated this shift by allocating more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462383
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Program Evaluation and Research Designs
DiNardo, John - 2010
This chapter provides a selective review of some contemporary approaches to program evaluation. One motivation for our review is the recent emergence and increasing use of a particular kind of "program" in applied microeconomic research, the so-called Regression Discontinuity (RD) Design of...
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The Inside Scoop : Acceptance and Rejection at the Journal of International Economics
Cherkashin, Ivan - 2008
submissions to the Journal of International Economics to help answer these questions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464690
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What Do Economists Know About Crime?
Dills, Angela K. - 2008
In this paper we evaluate what economists have learned over the past 40 years about the determinants of crime. We base our evaluation on two kinds of evidence: an examination of aggregate data over long time periods and across countries, and a critical review of the literature. We argue that...
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The Impact of Milton Friedman on Modern Monetary Economics : Setting the Record Straight on Paul Krugman's "Who Was Milton Friedman?"
Nelson, Edward - 2007
Paul Krugman's essay "Who Was Milton Friedman?" seriously mischaracterizes Friedman's economics and his legacy. In this …-contained guide to Milton Friedman's impact on modern monetary economics and on today's central banks. We also refute the conclusions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465100
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Employment Law and the Labor Market
Jolls, Christine - 2007
Legal rules governing the employer-employee relationship are many and varied. Economic analysis has illuminated both the efficiency and the effects on employee welfare of such rules, as described in this paper. Topics addressed include workplace safety mandates, compensation systems for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465423
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Regression Discontinuity Designs : A Guide to Practice
Imbens, Guido - 2007
theoretical papers, these methods did not attract much attention in the economics literature until recently. Starting in the late … 1990s, there has been a large number of studies in economics applying and extending RD methods. In this paper we review …
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