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Historical Natural Experiments : Bridging Economics and Economic History
Cantoni, Davide - 2020
The analysis of historical natural experiments has profoundly impacted economics research across fields. We trace the …
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A New Mechanism to Alleviate the Crises of Confidence in Science-With An Application to the Public Goods Game
Butera, Luigi - 2020
Creation of empirical knowledge in economics has taken a dramatic turn in the past few decades. One feature of the new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479325
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462637
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Cognitive Economics
Kimball, Miles S. - 2015
Cognitive Economics is the economics of what is in people's minds. It is a vibrant area of research (much of it within … Behavioral Economics, Labor Economics and the Economics of Education) that brings into play novel types of data--especially novel … Welfare Economics. A key theme of Cognitive Economics is finite cognition (often misleadingly called "bounded rationality …
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On the Generalizability of Experimental Results in Economics : With A Response To Camerer
Al-Ubaydli, Omar - 2013
study provides an overview of experimental methods in economics, with a special focus on developing an economic theory of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458996
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Six Decades of Top Economics Publishing : Who and How?
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2012
Presenting data on all full-length articles published in the three top general economics journals for one year in each …
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On the Generalizability of Experimental Results in Economics
Al-Ubaydli, Omar - 2012
study provides an overview of experimental methods in economics, with a special focus on developing an economic theory of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460702
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Economic Imperialism
Lazear, Edward P. - 1999
Economics is not only a social science, it is a genuine science. Like the physical sciences, economics uses a …, economics stresses three factors that distinguish it from other social sciences. Economists use the construct of rational … have allowed economics to invade intellectual territory that was previously deemed to be outside the discipline's realm …
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The Heterogeneous Effects of Large and Small Minimum Wage Changes : Evidence over the Short and Medium Run Using a Pre-Analysis Plan
Clemens, Jeffrey; Strain, Michael R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper advances the use of pre-analysis plans in non-experimental research settings. In a study of recent minimum wage changes, we demonstrate how analyses of medium- and long-run impacts of policy interventions can be pre-specified as extensions to short-run analyses. Further, our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012629484
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Incentivized Resume Rating : Eliciting Employer Preferences without Deception
Kessler, Judd B. - 2019
We introduce a new experimental paradigm to evaluate employer preferences, called Incentivized Resume Rating (IRR). Employers evaluate resumes they know to be hypothetical in order to be matched with real job seekers, preserving incentives while avoiding the deception necessary in audit studies....
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