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David Laidler on Monetarism
Bordo, Michael - 2006
David Laidler has been a major player in the development of the monetarist tradition. As the monetarist approach lost influence on policy makers he kept defending the importance of many of its principles. In this paper we survey and assess the impact on monetary economics of Laidler's work on...
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Top Incomes in Canada : Evidence from the Census
Lemieux, Thomas - 2015
This paper looks at the evolution of incomes at the top of the distribution in Canada. Master files of the Canadian … groups driving the growth in top incomes in Canada. A finding more specific to Canada is that the oil and gas sector has also … revolution, scientists, engineers and even computer scientists do not account for much of the growth in top incomes in Canada …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457321
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Statistical Uncertainty in the Ranking of Journals and Universities
Mogstad, Magne; Romano, Joseph P.; Shaikh, Azeem M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Economists are obsessed with rankings of institutions, journals, or scholars according to the value of some feature of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938737
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Using Digitized Newspapers to Refine Historical Measures : The Case of the Boll Weevil
Ferrara, Andreas; Ha, Joung Yeob; Walsh, Randall P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper shows how to remove attenuation bias in regression analyses due to measurement error in historical data for a given variable of interest by using a secondary measure which can be easily generated from digitized newspapers. We provide three methods for using this secondary variable to...
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Does Mentoring Increase the Collaboration Networks of Female Economists? An Evaluation of the CeMENT Randomized Trial
Ginther, Donna K.; Na, Rina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Previous research has shown that women in the treatment group of the CeMENT randomized controlled trial increased their publications and the likelihood that they were tenured in top 50 economics departments. This paper examines one potential mechanism, namely, that CeMENT expanded the...
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Women in Academic Economics : Have We Made Progress?
Ginther, Donna K.; Kahn, Shulamit Beth - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This study uses data from Academic Analytics to examine gender differences in promotion to associate professor in economics. We found that women in economics were 15% less likely to be promoted to associate professor after controlling for cumulative publications, citations, grants and grant...
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O.M.W. Sprague (the Man Who "Wrote the Book" on Financial Crises) meets the Great Depression
Rockoff, Hugh - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
When the Great Depression struck the United States, Oliver M.W. Sprague was America's foremost expert on financial crises. His History of Crises under the National Banking System is a frequently cited classic. Had he diagnosed a banking panic and called for an aggressive response by the Federal...
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A Note on the Global Distribution of Authorship in Economics Journals
Greenspon, Jacob; Rodrik, Dani - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Using Fontana et al.'s (2019) database, we analyze levels and trends in the global distribution of authorship in economics journals, disaggregating by country/region, quality of journal, and fields of specialization. We document striking imbalances. While Western and Northern European authors...
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Gender Differences in Peer Recognition by Economists
Card, David E.; Della Vigna, Stefano; Funk, Patricia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
over 40,000 actively publishing economists since the early 1900s. Conditional on achievement, we document a large negative … elect candidates from outside the US. Finally, we examine gender gaps in several other major awards for US economists. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012585426
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Cohort Effects on Expected Co-Movement
Goetzmann, William N.; Watanabe, Akiko; Watanabe, Masahiro - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
a semi-annual survey of forecasts by a panel of U.S. economists over more than 70 years, we infer forecaster beliefs …
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