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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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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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Migration and cultural change

Rapoport, Hillel; Sardoschau, Sulin; Silve, Arthur - 2020

We examine both theoretically and empirically how migration affects cultural change in home and host countries. Our theoretical model integrates various compositional and cultural transmission mechanisms of migration-based cultural change for which it delivers distinctive testable predictions on...

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Caught between cultures : unintended consequences of improving opportunity for immigrant girls

Dahl, Gordon B.; Felfe, Christina; Frijters, Paul; … - 2020

What happens when immigrant girls are given increased opportunities to integrate into the workplace and society, but their parents value more traditional cultural outcomes? Building on Akerlof and Kranton's identity framework (2000), we construct a simple theoretical model which shows how...

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Multigenerational transmission of culture

Spiro, Daniel - 2019

This paper explores intergenerational transmission of culture and the consequences of a plausible assumption: that people care not only for their children's culture but also for how their grand-children are raised. This departs from the previous literature which, without exception, assumes...

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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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The sources of the gender gap in economics enrolment

Tonin, Mirco; Wahba, Jackline - 2014

In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor's degree in Economics, arguably an … discriminating against female applicants. What we find is that girls are less likely to apply for a bachelor's degree in Economics to … Maths in high school and this may deter them from applying to study Economics at the university level. However, even among …

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