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This chapter reviews the data and literature on gender, race and ethnicity differences in research funding in the United States and Europe. The gender gap in research funding has closed at the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health in the United States and substantially...
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The analysis of historical natural experiments has profoundly impacted economics research across fields. We trace the …
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Creation of empirical knowledge in economics has taken a dramatic turn in the past few decades. One feature of the new …
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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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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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study provides an overview of experimental methods in economics, with a special focus on developing an economic theory of …
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Presenting data on all full-length articles published in the three top general economics journals for one year in each …
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study provides an overview of experimental methods in economics, with a special focus on developing an economic theory of …
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Ethics in social science experimentation and data collection are often discussed but rarely articulated in writing as part of research outputs. Although papers typically reference human subjects research approvals from relevant institutional review boards, most recognize that such boards are not...
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