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A decade of editing the European economic review
Eckstein, Zvi; Gal-Or, Esther; Gylfason, Thorvaldur; … - 2011
This story describes the circumstances that led to all five of us starting as editors at the same time, the unexpected things we have found, the unanticipated reactions we have encountered, how we worked as an editorial team, the central role of the editorial office manager, how we managed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280668
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Population Growth and Carbon Emissions
Casey, Gregory; Galor, Oded - 2016
We provide evidence that lower fertility can simultaneously increase income per capita and lower carbon emissions, eliminating a trade-off central to most policies aimed at slowing global climate change. We estimate the effect of lower fertility on carbon emissions accounting for the fact that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584695
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Women in Economics: Stalled Progress
Lundberg, Shelly; Stearns, Jenna - 2018
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984534
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Recent advances in the economics of individual subjective well-being
Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - 2010
stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported … provides a new possibility for the complementary testing of theories across fields in economics. Third, we inquire how the … insights gained from the study of individual happiness in economics affect public policy. …
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How economics helped shape American Judaism
Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2010
This chapter discusses the strong impact of economic forces, and changes in the economic environment, on American Jewish observance and American Jewish religious institutions in the 20th century. Beginning with the immigrants' experience of dramatic economic change between the old country and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272652
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Economics and religion
Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2010
This paper provides an overview of the relationship between economics and religion. It first considers the effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272757
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Egalitarian religion and economics
Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2010
The role of women in the ritual of many religions changed dramatically at the end of the 20th century, to the point where full participation by women was the norm by 2000 rather than the rarity that it had been 30 years earlier. This paper considers some aspects of the economic context that help...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272758
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Mass Reproducibility and Replicability: A New Hope
Brodeur, Abel; Mikola, Derek; Cook, Nikolai - 2024
This study pushes our understanding of research reliability by reproducing and replicating claims from 110 papers in leading economic and political science journals. The analysis involves computational reproducibility checks and robustness assessments. It reveals several patterns. First, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533953
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Article Length and Citation Outcomes
Hasan, Syed; Breunig, Robert - 2020
2010 and 2014 in the top five journals in economics and their citation count in Google Scholar, we find that a one per cent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207726
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Did the "Bologna Process" Achieve Its Goals? 20 Years of Empirical Evidence on Student Enrolment, Study Success and Labour Market Outcomes
Kroher, Martina; Leuze, Kathrin; Thomsen, Stephan L.; … - 2021
years later, we examine whether these goals were met by reviewing quantitative articles from sociology and economics. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882333