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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465622
The past half-century has seen economic research become increasingly empirical, while the nature of empirical economic research has also changed. In the 1960s and 1970s, an empirical economist's typical mission was to "explain" economic variables like wages or GDP growth. Applied econometrics...
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Economics is among the most popular undergraduate majors. However, even at the best research universities and liberal … arts colleges men outnumber women by two to one, and overall there are about 2.5 males to every female economics major. The … Undergraduate Women in Economics (UWE) Challenge was begun in 2015 for one year as a randomized controlled trial with 20 treatment …
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