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Market completeness has important implications for household behavior. I firmly reject complete markets for smallholders but am unable to do so for non-smallholders. This leads to important differences in production behavior: smallholders reallocate labor across activities less in response to...
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depend on inheritance rules on the commons. Motivated by the traditional management of the commons in the Italian Alps, we … present a model that fits the evolution of property rights observed over six centuries. Women's rights over the commons were …
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We investigate corruption as a social dilemma by means of a bribery game in which a risk of collective sanction of the public officials is introduced when the number of officials accepting a bribe from firms reaches a certain threshold. We show that, despite the social risk, the pursuit of...
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behavior in hiring. This paper analyzes the potential of this approach in a randomized experiment with fresh Ph.D. economists …
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This guide, updated for the 2011-12 job market season, describes the U. S. academic market for new Ph.D. economists and …
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We use data from the 2007-2008 Ph.D. economist job market to investigate initial job placement in terms of job location, job type, and job rank. Our results suggest gender differences in all three dimensions of job placement. Relative to their male counterparts, female candidates are less (more)...
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We analyze the pay and position of 1,009 faculty members who teach in doctoral-granting economics departments at fifty-three large public universities in the United States. Using the Web of Science, we have identified the journal articles published by these scholars and the number of times each...
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To what degree do economists disagree about key economic questions? To provide evidence, we make use of the responses … to a series of questions posed to a distinguished panel of economists put together by the Chicago School of Business …
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an economic history of the period from 1850-1950, with distinguished economists' stories inserted in appropriate places …. Nasar's goal is to show how economists work, but also to show that they are people too – with more than enough warts and …'s remarkably different conception in The Worldly Philosophers. I also discuss more generally the question of why economists might …
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reputation? Using evidence for academic economists, we find that, conditional on its impact, the quantity of output has no or …
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