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Inside Job or Deep Impact? Using Extramural Citations to Assess Economic Scholarship
Angrist, Joshua - 2017
clients and peers? Is economics scholarship uniquely insular? We address these questions by quantifying interactions between … economics and other disciplines. Changes in the impact of economic scholarship are measured here by the way other disciplines … cite us. We document a clear rise in the extramural influence of economic research, while also showing that economics is …
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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/10012457832
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A Synthetic Model of Disruption and Experimentation
Gans, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper examines how a firm's choice of the type of experiment impacts on its potential exploitation of new technological opportunities. It does so in the context of the failure of successful firms (or disruption) where the literature has informally suggested that firms undertake errors in...
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Prospect Theory and Asset Prices
Barberis, Nicholas - 1999
We propose a new framework for pricing assets, derived in part from the traditional consumption-based approach, but which also incorporates two long-standing ideas in psychology: prospect theory, and evidence on how prior outcomes affect risky choice. Consistent with prospect theory, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471569
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Airline Hubs : Costs, Markups and the Implications of Customer Heterogeneity
Berry, Steven - 1996
This paper estimates a model of airline competition that captures the two major features of the industry: product differentiation and economies of density. The results not only provide support to some of the traditional common wisdom in the industry, but are also useful for understanding major...
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Do Expenditures Other Than Instructional Expenditures Affect Graduation and Persistence Rates in American Higher Education
Webber, Douglas A. - 2009
During the last two decades, median instructional spending per full-time equivalent (FTE) student at American 4-year colleges and universities has grown at a slower rate than median spending per FTE student in a number of other expenditure categories including academic support, student services...
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Technology's Edge : The Educational Benefits of Computer-Aided Instruction
Barrow, Lisa - 2008
We present results from a randomized study of a well-defined use of computers in schools: a popular instructional computer program for pre-algebra and algebra. We assess the program using a test designed to target pre-algebra and algebra skills. Students randomly assigned to computer-aided...
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Are Durable Goods Consumers Forward Looking? Evidence from College Textbooks
Chevalier, Judith - 2005
textbooks sold in psychology, biology and economics in the 10 semesters from 1997 to 2001, we estimate a demand system for books …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467258
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Retrospective vs. Prospective Analyses of School Inputs : The Case of Flip Charts in Kenya
Glewwe, Paul - 2000
This paper compares retrospective and prospective analyses of the effect of flip charts on test scores in rural Kenyan schools. Retrospective estimates that focus on subjects for which flip charts are used suggest that flip charts raise test scores by up to 20 percent of a standard deviation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470713
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Books or Laptops? The Cost-Effectiveness of Shifting from Printed to Digital Delivery of Educational Content
Bando, Rosangela - 2016
Information and communication technologies, such as laptops, can be used for educational purposes as they provide users with computational tools, information storage and communication opportunities, but these devices may also pose as distractors that may tamper with the learning process. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455752