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Bell, Carolyn Shaw - In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 12 (1998) 4, pp. 191-195

disputatious terms of quota or reverse discrimination. It should also stimulate further small changes that could yield much greater …

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A Comment on CSWEP

Friedman, Milton - In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 12 (1998) 4, pp. 197-199

Milton Friedman corresponded with Carolyn Shaw Bell about the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP) in 1973. What follows is a distillation of those remarks.

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Two Cheers for CSWEP?

Bergmann, Barbara R. - In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 12 (1998) 4, pp. 185-189

The achievements (or lack thereof) of the AEA's Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP) are compared to those of analogous committees in three of our sister disciplines. In psychology, sociology, and history, committees of women professionals advocated and...

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CSWEP: 25 Years at a Time

Bartlett, Robin L. - In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 12 (1998) 4, pp. 177-183

The history and achievements of the American Economic Association's (AEA) Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP) over the past twenty-five years are reviewed. A picture of women's standing in the economics profession in 1972 is drawn with statistics on the number of...

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Evidence on Discrimination in Employment: Codes of Color, Codes of Gender

Darity, William A.; Mason, Patrick L. - In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 12 (1998) 2, pp. 63-90

which racial minorities, and then women, experienced substantial reductions in economic disparity and discrimination. Some … discrimination in employment? How successful has the passage of federal antidiscrimination legislation in the 1960s been in producing … at the outset, discrimination by race has diminished somewhat, and discrimination by gender has diminished substantially …

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The Effects of an Anti-grade-Inflation Policy at Wellesley College

Butcher, Kristin F.; McEwan, Patrick J.; Weerapana, Akila - In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 28 (2014) 3, pp. 189-204

Average grades in colleges and universities have risen markedly since the 1960s. Critics express concern that grade inflation erodes incentives for students to learn; gives students, employers, and graduate schools poor information on absolute and relative abilities; and reflects the quid pro...

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The Superiority of Economists

Fourcade, Marion; Ollion, Etienne; Algan, Yann - In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 29 (2015) 1, pp. 89-114

In this essay, we analyze the dominant position of economics within the network of the social sciences in the United States. We begin by documenting the relative insularity of economics, using bibliometric data. Next we analyze the tight management of the field from the top down, which gives...

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Classroom Games: A Market for Lemons

Holt, Charles A.; Sherman, Roger - In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 13 (1999) 1, pp. 205-214

The incentives that arise in markets with asymmetric information are illustrated in the classroom exercise presented here. Student sellers choose both a quality 'grade' and a price for their products. Initially, both prices and grades for all sellers are posted, and buyers select from these...

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Classroom Games: Speculation and Bubbles in an Asset Market

Ball, Sheryl B.; Holt, Charles A. - In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 12 (1998) 1, pp. 207-218

This paper describes a classroom exercise in which students trade assets of uncertain value in a sequence of market periods. Assets pay one-dollar dividends at the end of each period, but once the dividend is paid there is fixed probability that the asset will be destroyed. Dividends and...

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Classroom Games: Strategic Interaction on the Internet

Grobelnik, Marko; Holt, Charles A.; Prasnikar, Vesna - In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 13 (1999) 2, pp. 211-220

Economics is often taught at a level of abstraction that can hinder some students from gaining basic intuition. However, lecture and textbook presentations can be complemented with classroom exercises in which students make decisions and interact. The approach can increase interest in, and...

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