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The immense literature on discrimination treats outcomes as relative: One group suffers compared to another. But does a difference arise because agents discriminate against others--are exophobic--or because they favor their own kind--are endophilic? This difference matters, as the relative...
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models devised by the economists vary depending on whether they are "progressive" vs. "conservative". The predictions depend … economists will tend to report a lower keynesian multiplier, and a greater long-term inflationary impact of output expansions. On … the other hand, the economists' margin of manoeuver is constrained by the autocoherence conditions. Here, a "progressive …
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really an economic history of the period from 1850-1950, with distinguished economists' stories inserted in appropriate … places. Nasar's goal is to show how economists work, but also to show that they are people too--with more than enough warts … economists might be interested in their history at all. …
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effectiveness. We present data from a randomized controlled trial of a mentoring program for female economists organized by the …
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Measuring market discrimination is extremely difficult except in the increasingly rare case where physical output measures allow direct measurement of productivity. We illustrate this point with evidence on elections to offices of the American Economic Association. Using a new technique to infer...
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policy diminished as economists changed their views about the inherent stability of the economy and the usefulness of fiscal …
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placement, and long-term outcomes for PhD economists from seven programs. Using macro conditions as an instrument for initial …
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We compile the list of articles published in major refereed economics journals during the last 35 years that have received more than 500 citations. We document major shifts in the mode of contribution and in the importance of different sub-fields: Theory loses out to empirical work, and micro...
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Revealed preferences are tastes that rationalize an economic agent's observed actions. Normative preferences represent the agent's actual interests. It sometimes makes sense to assume that revealed preferences are identical to normative preferences. But there are many cases where this assumption...
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behavior. I'll draw on recent examples of market design ranging from labor markets for doctors and new economists, to kidney …
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