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This document summarizes various tips for economics research papers. …
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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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What are the performance benefits of investing in human resources in a low-cost labor environment where returns to such investment are widely perceived as negligible? This paper presents a matched pair case study on the performance effect of human resource management systems at two garment...
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, 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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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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Climate change is sometimes viewed as the most serious problem facing modern society. The science behind anthropogenic global warming has been understood for more than half a century. Yet relatively few economists work on topics related to climate change. What explains this (apparent) lack of...
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to specialize in Labor/Health, Macro/Finance, Industrial Organization, Public Economics, and Development …/Growth/International and are more likely to specialize in Agricultural/Resource/Environmental Economics. Field-specific gender faculty ratios … and expected relative salaries as well as economics department rankings are significant factors for gender doctoral …
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years later, we examine whether these goals were met by reviewing quantitative articles from sociology and economics. We …
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We investigate the gender gap in Economics among bachelor's and master's graduates in Italy between 2010 and 2019 …. First we establish that being female exerts a negative impact on the choice to major in Economics: at the bachelor level …, only 73 women graduate in Economics for every 100 men, with the mathematical content of high school curricula as the key …
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, economics, and related fields (e.g., statistics, engineering, and health policy) to discuss approaches to modeling economy …
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