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This articles investigates the recent trends in co-authorship in economics. Using data from more than 700.000 journal …
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of study. These differences can in most cases be attributed to self-selection. A notable exception is economics. Even … though self-selection is also important, training in economics has an unambiguous influence on the political attitudes: by … the time of graduation, economics students are about 6.2 percentage points more likely than they were as freshmen to agree …
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Research on leadership in economics has developed in parallel to the literature in management and psychology and links … fields could profit from enriching their approach with insights from the other field. We review and synthesize the economics … detailed understanding of transactional methods that economists have developed. We link the contributions in economics to a …
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We provide evidence that lower fertility can simultaneously increase income per capita and lower carbon emissions, eliminating a trade-off central to most policies aimed at slowing global climate change. We estimate the effect of lower fertility on carbon emissions accounting for the fact that...
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discount rates than private agents. The economics depends on the costs and rates of technical progress in production of fossil …
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This paper provides a synthesis of the state of knowledge on the economics of skyscrapers. First, we document how …
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This paper evaluates the impact of a sudden and unexpected nation-wide alcohol sales ban in South Africa. We find that this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on...
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The estimated values to society from long-term public projects, including climate change mitigation and infrastructure construction, are highly sensitive to the social discount rate (SDR) employed. Governmental guidance on social discounting has predominantly been based on input from expert...
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for tenure-track assistant professor positions in economics in Italy and exploiting NLP techniques (i.e., document …
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economics with the highest dynamics (largest rates of change in paper counts). We found that the field with the largest paper …
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