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Recent trends in co-authorship in economics : evidence from RePEc

Rath, Katharina; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2015

This articles investigates the recent trends in co-authorship in economics. Using data from more than 700.000 journal …

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Simply a matter of luck & looks? : predicting elections when both the world economy and the psychology of faces count

Garretsen, Harry; Stoker, Janka I.; Alessie, Rob; … - 2014

Economic research shows that candidates have a higher chance of getting (re-)elected when they have the luck that the world economy does well even though this is beyond their control and unrelated to their competence. Psychological research demonstrates that candidates increase their chances if...

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Writing tips for economics research papers : 2021-2022 edition

Nikolov, Plamen - 2022

This document summarizes various tips for economics research papers. …

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Reactivity in economic science

Frey, Bruno S. - 2017

matter of course that economics should become a natural science. Such a characterization misses an essential aspect of a …

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Women in economics : stalled progress

Lundberg, Shelly; Stearns, Jenna - 2018

within economics has changed. We then review the recent literature on other dimensions of women's relative position in the … promotion rates in economics. Furthermore, the progress of women has stalled relative to that in other disciplines in the past …

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Recent advances in the economics of individual subjective well-being

Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - 2010

stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported … provides a new possibility for the complementary testing of theories across fields in economics. Third, we inquire how the … insights gained from the study of individual happiness in economics affect public policy. -- Economics ; happiness ; life …

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Does exposure to economics bring new majors to the field? : evidence from a natural experiment

Fricke, Hans; Grogger, Jeff; Steinmayr, Andreas - 2015

, economics, or law. Due to oversubscription of business, the university assigns the field of the paper in a standardized way that … is unrelated to student characteristics. We find that being assigned to write in economics raises the probability of … majoring in economics by 2.7 percentage points, which amounts to 18 percent of the share of students who major in economics. …

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Does the field of study influence students' political attitudes?

Fischer, Mira; Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas; … - 2015

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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Black sheep or scapegoats? : implementable monitoring policies under unobservable levels of misbehavior

Buechel, Berno; Mühlheußer, Gerd - 2014

An authority delegates a monitoring task to an agent. It can only observe the number of detected offenders, but neither the monitoring intensity chosen by the agent nor the resulting level of misbehavior. We provide a necessary and sufficient condition for the implementability of monitoring...

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A productive clash of cultures : injecting economics into leadership research

Zehnder, Christian; Herz, Holger; Bonardi, Jean-Philippe - 2016

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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