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Six Decades of Top Economics Publishing : Who and How?
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2012
Presenting data on all full-length articles published in the three top general economics journals for one year in each …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096137
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On the Generalizability of Experimental Results in Economics
Al-Ubaydli, Omar - 2012
study provides an overview of experimental methods in economics, with a special focus on developing an economic theory of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108249
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On the Generalizability of Experimental Results in Economics : With a Response to Camerer
Al-Ubaydli, Omar - 2013
study provides an overview of experimental methods in economics, with a special focus on developing an economic theory of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072579
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Historical Natural Experiments : Bridging Economics and Economic History
Cantoni, Davide; Yuchtman, Noam - 2022
The analysis of historical natural experiments has profoundly impacted economics research across fields. We trace the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014101688
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Cognitive Economics
Kimball, Miles S. - 2015
Cognitive Economics is the economics of what is in people's minds. It is a vibrant area of research (much of it within … Behavioral Economics, Labor Economics and the Economics of Education) that brings into play novel types of data—especially novel … Welfare Economics. A key theme of Cognitive Economics is finite cognition (often misleadingly called “bounded rationality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030618
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Program Evaluation and Research Designs
DiNardo, John E. - 2010
This chapter provides a selective review of some contemporary approaches to program evaluation. One motivation for our review is the recent emergence and increasing use of a particular kind of "program" in applied microeconomic research, the so-called Regression Discontinuity (RD) Design of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143173
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A New Mechanism to Alleviate the Crises of Confidence in Science-With an Application to the Public Goods Game
Butera, Luigi; Grossman, Philip J.; Houser, Daniel; … - 2022
Creation of empirical knowledge in economics has taken a dramatic turn in the past few decades. One feature of the new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324689
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Why Plant-Level Productivity Studies are Often Misleading, and an Alternative Approach to Interference
Katayama, Hajime; Lu, Shihua; Tybout, James - 2021
Applied economists often wish to measure the effects of managerial decisions or policy changes on plant-level productivity patterns. But plant-level data on physical quantities of output, capital, and intermediate inputs are usually unavailable. Therefore, when constructing productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013233721
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Detecting Discrimination in Audit and Correspondence Studies
Neumark, David - 2010
Audit studies testing for discrimination have been criticized because applicants from different groups may not appear identical to employers. Correspondence studies address this criticism by using fictitious paper applicants whose qualifications can be made identical across groups. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137303
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Retirement Research Using the Health and Retirement Survey
Gustman, Alan L. - 2010
This paper highlights unanswered research questions in the economics of retirement, and shows how these issues can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138704