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Lab experiments are a major source of knowledge in the social sciences

Falk, Armin; Heckman, James Joseph - 2009

Laboratory experiments are a widely used methodology for advancing causal knowledge in the physical and life sciences. With the exception of psychology, the adoption of laboratory experiments has been much slower in the social sciences, although during the last two decades, the use of lab...

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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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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...

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The Educational Achievement of Pupils with Immigrant and Native Mothers: Evidence from Taiwan

Lin, Eric S.; Lu, Yu-Lung - 2015

This paper takes advantage of the Taiwan Assessment of Student Achievement data set to empirically evaluate whether the test score differentials between pupils with immigrant and native mothers are substantial across subjects, grades and years. Our results show that there exist test score...

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The Rapid Evolution of Homo Economicus: Brief Exposure to Neoclassical Assumptions Increases Self-Interested Behavior

Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa - 2016

Economics students have been shown to exhibit more selfishness than other students. Because the literature identifies … the impact of long-term exposure to economics instruction (e.g., taking a course), it cannot isolate the specific course … experiment, we use a within- and across-subject design to identify the impact of brief, randomly-assigned economics lessons on …

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Pay and Job Rank Amongst Academic Economists in the UK: Is Gender Relevant?

Mumford, Karen A.; Sechel, Cristina - 2019

This article presents and explores a rich new data source to analyse the determinants of pay and job rank amongst academic Economists in the UK. Characteristics associated with individual productivity and workplace features are found to be important determinants of the relative wage and...

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School Effects and Labor Market Outcomes for Young Adults in the 1980s and 1990s

Konstantopoulos, Spyros; Constant, Amelie F. - 2003

This study examines high school effects on the labor market success of young adults, above and beyond individual and family characteristics. We employ data from two longitudinal, nationally probability samples: the National Longitudinal Study and the High School and Beyond study and the 5th and...

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How prediction markets can save event studies

Snowberg, Erik; Wolfers, Justin; Zitzewitz, Eric - 2011

This review paper articulates the relationship between prediction market data and event studies, with a special focus on applications in political economy. Event studies have been used to address a variety of political economy questions - from the economic effects of party control of government...

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A Complete Framework for Model-Free Difference-in-Differences Estimation

Henderson, Daniel J.; Sperlich, Stefan - 2022

We propose a complete framework for model-free difference-in-differences analysis with covariates, where model-free means data-driven, in particular nonparametric estimation and testing, variable and scale choice. We start with searching for the preferred data setup by simultaneously choosing...

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Integrating Gender into a Labor Economics Class

Strenio, Jacqueline; van der Meulen Rodgers, Yana - 2023

This article argues that a systematic integration of gender into labor economics courses based on standard textbooks is … both beneficial and straightforward. An undergraduate course in labor economics presents an ideal opportunity to introduce … review the most popular textbooks in labor economics and show how gender issues are mostly contained in a single chapter on …

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