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No Taxation without Information : Deterrence and Self-Enforcement in the Value Added Tax
Pomeranz, Dina - 2013
paper analyzes the role of third party information for VAT enforcement through two randomized experiments among over 400 …
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Gender and Underrepresented Minority Differences in Research Funding
Cruz Castro, Laura; Ginther, Donna K.; Sanz Menéndez, Luis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334326
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Social experimentation : A National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
Hausman, Jerry A. (ed.); Wise, David A. (contributor) - 1985
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000688456
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A Call for Structured Ethics Appendices in Social Science Papers
Asiedu, Edward; Karlan, Dean; Lambon-Quayefio, Monica P.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
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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Empirics on the Origins of Preferences : The Case of College Major and Religiosity
Kimball, Miles S. - 2009
Early life experiences are likely to be important for the formation of preferences. Religiosity is a key dimension of preferences, affecting many economic outcomes. This paper examines the effect of college major on religiosity, and the converse effect of religiosity on college major, using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463467
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Beyond BMI : The Value of More Accurate Measures of Fatness and Obesity in Social Science Research
Cawley, John - 2006
As an example of the value of fatness in predicting social science outcomes, we show that while BMI is positively correlated with the probability of employment disability in the PSID, when body mass is divided into its components, fatness is positively correlated with disability while fat-free...
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Patent Citation Data in Social Science Research : Overview and Best Practices
Jaffe, Adam B. - 2016
The last two decades have witnessed a dramatic increase in the use of patent citation data in social science research. Facilitated by digitization of the patent data and increasing computing power, a community of practice has grown up that has developed methods for using these data to: measure...
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The Role of the computer in economic and social research in Latin America : a conference report of the National Bureau of Economic Research
Ruggles, Nancy D. (contributor); Ruggles, Nany D. (ed.) - 1974
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Information Production and Capital Allocation : Decentralized vs. Hierarchical Firms
Stein, Jeremy C. - 2000
This paper assesses different organizational forms in terms of their ability to generate information about investment … likely to be attractive when information about individual projects is soft' and cannot be credibly transmitted. Moreover …, holding fixed firm size, soft information also favors flatter organizations with fewer layers of management. In contrast …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471056
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Does Distance Still Matter? The Information Revolution in Small Business Lending
Petersen, Mitchell A. - 2000
The distance between small firms and their lenders in the United States is increasing. Not only are firms choosing more distant lenders, they are also communicating with them in more impersonal ways. After documenting these systematic changes, we demonstrate that they do not stem from small...
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