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To Starve or to Stoke? : Understanding Whether Divestment vs. Investment Can Steer (Green) Innovation

Pless, Jacquelyn - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

More than 1,500 organizations and investors representing over $40 trillion in assets have committed to fossil fuel divestment to combat climate change. Will it work? This chapter explores whether divestment might induce green innovation, a critical component of transitioning to a cleaner...

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The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics

Huntington-Klein, Nick; Pörtner, Claus Chr.; Acharya, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We use a rigorous three-stage many-analysts design to assess how different researcher decisions--specifically data cleaning, research design, and the interpretation of a policy question--affect the variation in estimated treatment effects. A total of 146 research teams each completed the same...

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The Demographic and Research Styles of Economics Writing

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

This study examines publications in three leading general economics journals from the 1960s through the 2020s …

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The Long-Run Impacts of Mentoring Underrepresented Minority Groups in Economics

Antman, Francisca M.; Qu, Sheng; Weinberg, Bruce A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

economics, the American Economic Association Mentoring Program (AEAMP). The AEAMP was established to address the … underrepresentation of racial/ethnic minority groups by mentoring doctoral students and new Ph.D.s in economics. We compare professional …

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Economics and the Modern Economic Historian

Abramitzky, Ran - 2015

I reflect on the role of modern economic history in economics. I document a substantial increase in the percentage of … past has contributed to economics by providing ground to test economic theory, improve economic policy, understand economic … those of other economists in the economics job market. I speculate how the increase in availability of high quality micro …

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A Comparison of Programming Languages in Economics

Aruoba, S. Borağan - 2014

We solve the stochastic neoclassical growth model, the workhorse of modern macroeconomics, using C++11, Fortran 2008, Java, Julia, Python, Matlab, Mathematica, and R. We implement the same algorithm, value function iteration with grid search, in each of the languages. We report the execution...

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Nine Facts about Top Journals in Economics

Card, David - 2013

How has publishing in top economics journals changed since 1970? Using a data set that combines information on all … has remained relatively stable, with the notable exception of the Quarterly Journal of Economics, which climbed from …

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Revealed Preferences for Journals : Evidence from Page Limits

Card, David - 2012

(JEEA) in 2009 in response to a substantial increase in the length of articles in economics. We focus the analysis on the …

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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 …

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Thirty Years of Prospect Theory in Economics : A Review and Assessment

Barberis, Nicholas C. - 2012

Prospect theory, first described in a 1979 paper by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, is widely viewed as the best available description of how people evaluate risk in experimental settings. While the theory contains many remarkable insights, economists have found it challenging to apply these...

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