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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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Towards behavioral political economy of institutional change : with field facts from China

Zhang, Yongjing; Wang, Mei - 2014

This study proposes an analytical framework towards behavioral political economy of institutional change. It considers institutional changes as central government’s choices under uncertainty, which are largely driven by the strategic outcomes in a behavioral coordination game between local...

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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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Testing dependence among serially correlated multi-category variables

Pesaran, M. Hashem (contributor); … - 2006

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Optimal asset allocation with factor models for large portfolios

Pesaran, M. Hashem (contributor); … - 2008

This paper characterizes the asymptotic behaviour, as the number of assets gets arbitrarily large, of the portfolio weights for the class of tangency portfolios belonging to the Markowitz paradigm. It is assumed that the joint distribution of asset returns is characterized by a general factor...

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Integrating with their feet : cross-border lending at the German-Austrian border

Fidrmuc, Jarko (contributor); Hainz, Christa (contributor) - 2008

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Lionel Robbins : a methodological reappraisal

Resende, Marcelo (contributor); … - 2007

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Panel unit root tests in the presence of a multifactor error structure

Pesaran, M. Hashem (contributor); … - 2008

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Recent temporal dynamics in economics : empirical analyses of annual publications in economic fields

Bornmann, Lutz; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2024

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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Alcohol, violence and injury-induced mortality : evidence from a modern-day prohibition

Barron, Kai; Parry, Charles D.H.; Bradshaw, Debbie; … - 2022

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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