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Orson Wells made Citizen Kane, his greatest movie, when he was 25 years old; Frank Lloyd Wright designed Fallingwater, his most famous house, when he was 70. Contrasts as great as this raise the question of whether there is a general explanation of when in their lives great innovators are most...
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submissions to the Journal of International Economics to help answer these questions …
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a critical review of the literature. We argue that economists know little about the empirically relevant determinants of …
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Paul Krugman's essay quot;Who Was Milton Friedman?quot; seriously mischaracterizes Friedman's economics and his legacy … a self-contained guide to Milton Friedman's impact on modern monetary economics and on today's central banks. We also …
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Legal rules governing the employer-employee relationship are many and varied. Economic analysis has illuminated both the efficiency and the effects on employee welfare of such rules, as described in this paper. Topics addressed include workplace safety mandates, compensation systems for...
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Discrimination is notoriously difficult to document. Convincing tests for discrimination require good measures of the legitimate determinants of the outcome of interest, for example wages and productivity. While few contexts provide data adequate to the task of measuring discrimination, copious...
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States. We describe the central economic questions raised by AD. While there is overlap with the economics of aging, the … defining features of the ‘economics of Alzheimer's Disease' is an emphasis on cognitive decline, choice by cognitively impaired … public programs for AD. These topics overlap with many areas of economics -- labor economics, health economics, public …
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We study how citation patterns differ between journal tiers in economics. Concretely, we analyze citations patterns of … more than 6,000 economics research articles published in top five, second tier, and top field economics journals between … 1992 and 1996. In line with previous literature, we find that top five journals' articles generally receive more citations …
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in academic economics departments. Analyzing the job histories of tenure-track economists hired by the top 35 U ….S. economics departments, we find that T5 publications have a powerful influence on tenure decisions and rates of transition to …
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that—in contrast to current conventional wisdom in policy-oriented research in monetary economics—the role of money in …
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