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Uhlig, Harald - 2010

economics and reality. More precisely, it asks how reality in the form empirical evidence does or does not influence economic … from general to specific. For the general perspective, I examine the following four points of view. First, economics is a … science. Second, economics is an art. Third, economics is a competition. Forth, economics politics. I then examine four …

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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...

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The Mid-Life Dip in Well-Being : Economists (Who Find It) Versus Psychologists (Who Don't)!

Blanchflower, David G. - 2020

A number of studies - including our own - find a mid-life dip in well-being. We review a psychology literature that claims that the evidence of a U-shape is "overblown" and if there is such a decline it is "trivial". We find remarkably strong and consistent evidence across countries and US...

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The Influence of Irving Fisher on Milton Friedman's Monetary Economics

Bordo, Michael D. - 2011

This paper examines the influence of Irving Fisher's writings on Milton Friedman's work in monetary economics. We focus … building blocks for later students of monetary economics. Thus, the Chicago School of the 1930s absorbed Fisher's approach, and …

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The Macroeconomist as Scientist and Engineer

Mankiw, N. Gregory - 2006

This essay offers a brief history of macroeconomics, together with an evaluation of what has been learned over the past several decades. It is based on the premise that the field has evolved through the efforts of two types of macroeconomist-- those who understand the field as a type of...

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Marshall's Economies

Henderson, Vernon - 1999

This paper estimates the nature and magnitude of the local externalities from own industry scale, as envisioned by Marshall. Census panel data on individual plants in high-tech and machinery industries across up to 487 countries are utilized, to quantify the direct effects of local external...

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'Morality and Political Economy' from the Vantage Point of Economics

Enke, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

recent economics research on prominent ideas in moral psychology. First, the theory that morality is ultimately economically … politico-economic outcomes influence each other if they engage with research in economics …

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Banking on Technology : Bank Technology Adoption and Its Effects

Jiang, Sheila; Rebucci, Alessandro; Zhang, Gang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We develop and estimate a new model of endogenous growth in bank efficiency and firm productivity in which banks adopt technology embedded in capital goods produced by entrepreneurs, and agents choose whether to become workers or capital-good-producing entrepreneurs. In this framework, bank...

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Why Are Nordic Workers so Remote? : Potential Causes and (Some) Indirect Labor Market Consequences

Gill, Adam; Hensvik, Lena E.; Nordström Skans, Oskar - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

In this article, we show that working from home is much more prevalent in the Nordic countries than in the rest of Europe and we discuss potential causes and labor market consequences of this stylized fact. Likely contributing causes include a good technological infrastructure and comparatively...

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Finding John Smith : Using Extra Information for Historical Record Linkage

Abramitzky, Ran; Boustan, Leah Platt; Brookes Gray, Harriet - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We introduce a new rule-based linking method for historical Census records. We augment earlier algorithms based on name, age and place of birth (Abramitzky, Boustan, Eriksson, 2012, or "basic ABE"), with five matching characteristics - middle initial, county of residence, and spouse and parents'...

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