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Are speculators driving up oil prices? Should we raise energy prices to slow global warming? The present study takes a small number of such questions and compares the views of economic experts with those of the public. This comparison uses a panel of more than 2000 respondents from YouGov with...
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compare changes in the probability of selection of women as members of the NAS and AAAS from the 1960s to today, controlling … men with similar records. By the 1990s, the selection process at both academies was approximately gender …
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-related dissertations in economics over time and in many sub-fields. Women economists are significantly more likely to write gender …
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This paper investigates gender gaps in long-term career expectations and outcomes of PhD candidates in economics. For this purpose, we match rich survey data on PhD candidates (from the 2008-2010 job market cohorts) to public data on job histories and publication records through 2022. We...
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When race is not directly observed, regulators and analysts commonly predict it using algorithms based on last name and address. In small business lending--where regulators assess fair lending law compliance using the Bayesian Improved Surname Geocoding (BISG) algorithm--we document large...
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for what is to come for the rest of society as machine learning diffuses. We find economists and other social scientists …
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fairness of race-based hiring decisions vary with the motivation and circumstances surrounding the discriminatory act and the … accepting of discriminatory actions, and consider the discriminatee's race when making their fairness assessments. We describe … four simple models of fairness -utilitarianism, race-blind rules (RBRs), racial in-group bias, and belief …
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What drives change in a society's values? From Marx to modernization theory, scholars have identified a connection between structural transformation and social change. To understand how changes in a society's dominant mode of production affect its dominant values, we examine the case of the...
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We examine the dynamics of a country's growth, consumption, and sovereign debt, assuming that the government is myopic and wants to maximize short-term, self-interested spending. Surprisingly, government myopia can increase a country's access to external borrowing. In turn, access to borrowing...
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of refugees? To answer this question, we investigate attitudes toward newcomers among natives and previous immigrants. In …
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