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Industrial activity periodically experiences breakthrough innovations in energy efficiency, but the estimated impacts of these innovations on aggregate energy use are highly varied. We develop a general equilibrium model to investigate whether this variation is determined by the structure of the...
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This paper defines isomorphism for network formation that is not mathematically isomorphic. Once the pattern of network formation is characterized, one can test for (i) location fixed effects, (ii) heterogeneity, (iii) private information allowing for long-term contracts. The paper provides...
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years. The intervention includes students aged 7-9 and consists of pulling students from their regular mathematics classes … into small, homogenous groups for mathematics instruction for 3 to 4 hours per week, for two periods of 4-6 weeks per … their performance in mathematics by .16 standard deviations at the end of the school year and by .06 standard deviations in …
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We propose a flexible model of infectious dynamics with a single endogenous state variable and economic choices. We characterize equilibrium, optimal outcomes, static and dynamic externalities, and prove the following: (i) A lockdown generically is followed by policies to stimulate activity....
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institutions and compare them with the economics funding program of the National Science Foundation. Our results indicate that …
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics. Using more than 120,000 multi-authored articles from the Web of Science economics … subject category, we demonstrate first that the alphabetization rate in economics has declined over the last decade. Second …, we find no statistically significant relationship between alphabetized co-authorship and citations in economics using six …
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Updating the study by Seiler and Wohlrabe (2013) we use archetypoid analysis to classify top economists. The approach allows us to identify typical characteristics of extreme (archetypal) values in a multivariate data set. In contrast to its predecessor, the archetypal analysis, archetypoids...
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economics as a field does not appreciate and work on what economists collectively prefer …
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journal? We show empirically that the answer is yes, using 3167 articles published in five of the top journals in economics …
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We compare Covid-related working papers in economics to non-Covid-related working papers in four dimensions. Based on …
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