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Gender and Underrepresented Minority Differences in Research Funding
Cruz Castro, Laura; Ginther, Donna K.; Sanz Menéndez, Luis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This chapter reviews the data and literature on gender, race and ethnicity differences in research funding in the United States and Europe. The gender gap in research funding has closed at the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health in the United States and substantially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334326
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Evaluating the Differential Effects of Alternative Welfare-to-Work Training Components : A Re-Analysis of the California GAIN Program
Hotz, V. Joseph - 2006
In this paper, we explore ways of combining experimental data and non-experimental methods to estimate the differential effects of components of training programs. We show how data from a multi-site experimental evaluation in which subjects are randomly assigned to any treatment versus a control...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466732
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Historical Natural Experiments : Bridging Economics and Economic History
Cantoni, Davide - 2020
The analysis of historical natural experiments has profoundly impacted economics research across fields. We trace the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479278
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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 - 2020
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/10012479325
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Program Evaluation and Research Designs
DiNardo, John - 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/10012462637
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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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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/10012458996
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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/10012460025
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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/10012460702
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A Call for Structured Ethics Appendices in Social Science Papers
Asiedu, Edward; Karlan, Dean; Lambon-Quayefio, Monica P.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Ethics in social science experimentation and data collection are often discussed but rarely articulated in writing as part of research outputs. Although papers typically reference human subjects research approvals from relevant institutional review boards, most recognize that such boards are not...
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