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“If You Compete with Us, We Shan't Marry You” the (Mary Paley and) Alfred Marshall Lecture

Pande, Rohini; Roy, Helena - 2023

Alfred Marshall and Mary Paley Marshall are often described as the first academic economist couple. Both studied at Cambridge University, where Paley became one of the first women to take the Tripos exam and the first female lecturer in economics, with Marshall’s encouragement. But in later...

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Trevor Swan and the Neoclassical Growth Model

Dimand, Robert W. - 2010

Trevor Swan independently developed the neoclassical growth model. Swan (1956) was published ten months later than Solow (1956), but included a more complete analysis of technical progress, which Solow treated separately in Solow (1957). Reference is sometimes made to the quot;Solow-Swan growth...

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What Do Economists Know About Crime?

Dills, Angela K. - 2010

In this paper we evaluate what economists have learned over the past 40 years about the determinants of crime. We base … a critical review of the literature. We argue that economists know little about the empirically relevant determinants of …

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A Citation-Based Test for Discrimination at Economics and Finance Journals

Smart, Scott - 2015

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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What Do Trade Agreements Really Do?

Rodrik, Dani - 2018

, they have become more difficult to fit into received economic theory. Nevertheless, most economists continue to regard …

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Why are Professors "Poorly Paid"?

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2018

accounts for as much as one-third of the wage disadvantage. Survey data (of economists only) indicate that flexible scheduling …

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Economists (and Economics) in Tech Companies

Athey, Susan - 2018

As technology platforms have created new markets and new ways of acquiring information, economists have come to play an … past five years, hundreds of PhD economists have accepted positions in the technology sector. In this paper, we explore the … skills that PhD economists apply in tech companies, the companies that hire them, the types of problems that economists are …

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Judicial Politics and Sentencing Decisions

Cohen, Alma - 2018

This paper investigates whether judge political affiliation contributes to racial and gender disparities in sentencing using data on over 500,000 federal defendants linked to sentencing judge. Exploiting random case assignment, we find that Republican-appointed judges sentence black defendants...

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Depression for Economists

de Quidt, Jonathan - 2016

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is one of the most prevalent mental illnesses worldwide. Existing evidence suggests that it has both economic causes and consequences, such as unemployment. However, depression has not received significant attention in the economics literature. In this paper, we...

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Co-Authorship in Economic History and Economics : Are We Any Different?

Seltzer, Andrew - 2017

Over the last six decades articles published in leading economic history journals have been less likely to be co-authored than articles published in leading general economics journals. However, in both economic history and general economics journals there have been strong, monotonic increases in...

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