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Citation success over time : theory or empirics?

Johnston, David; Piatti, Marco; Torgler, Benno - 2012

This study investigates the citation patterns of theoretical and empirical papers over a period of almost 30 years, while also exploring the determinants of citation success. The results indicate that empirical papers attract more citation success than theoretical studies. However, the pattern...

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A century of American Economic Review

Torgler, Benno; Piatti, Marco - 2011

Using information collected from American Economic Review publications of the last 100 years, we try to provide answers to various questions: Which are the top AER publishing institutions and countries? Which are the top AER papers based on citation success? How frequently is someone able to...

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Artificial intelligence in the field of economics

Bickley, Steve J.; Chan, Ho Fai; Torgler, Benno - 2021

The history of AI in economics is long and winding, much the same as the evolving field of AI itself. Economists have engaged with AI since its beginnings, albeit in varying degrees and with changing focus across time and places. In this study, we have explored the diffusion of AI and different...

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A Time to Print, a Time to Reform

Boerner, Lars; Rubin, Jared; Severgnini, Battista - 2019

The public mechanical clock and the movable type printing press were two of the most important and complex general purpose technologies of the late medieval period. We document two of their most important, yet unforeseeable, consequences. First, an instrumental variables analysis indicates that...

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Attractiveness, anthropometry or both? : their relationship and role in economic research

Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2014

We analyze how attractiveness rated at the start of the interview is related to weight (controlling for height), and … the first to show that height, weight, and BMI all strongly contribute to male and female attractiveness when … hourly wage and spousal education, showing that attractiveness and height matter in the labor market, whereas both male and …

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Short and long-term impacts of famines : the case of the siege of Paris 1870-1871

Cogneau, Denis; Kesztenbaum, Lionel - 2016

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Juvenile delinquency and conformism

Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2010 - Revised: July 2, 2009

This paper studies whether conformism behavior affects individual outcomes in crime. We present a social network model of peer effects with ex-ante heterogeneous agents and show how conformism and deterrence affect criminal activities. We then bring the model to the data by using a very detailed...

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Women's rights and development

Fernández, Raquel - 2010

Why has the expansion of women's economic and political rights coincided with economic development? This paper investigates this question, focusing on a key economic right for women: property rights. The basic hypothesis is that the process of development (i.e., capital accumulation and...

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"Thou shalt not covet ..." : prohibitions, temptation and moral values

Cervellati, Matteo; Vanin, Paolo - 2010

We propose a theory studying temptation in presence of both externally and internally sanctioned prohibitions. Moral values that (internally) sanction prohibited actions and their desire may increase utility by reducing self-control costs, thereby serving as partial commitment devices. We apply...

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A history of violence: testing the "culture of honor" in the US South

Grosjean, Pauline - 2010 - Preliminary version: February 14, 2010

Using historical data on early settlers to the United States, this paper tests and confirms the “Culture of Honor” hypothesis by socio-psychologists Dov Cohen and Richard Nisbett (1994, 1996). This hypothesis argues that the high prevalence of homicides in the US South stems from the fact...

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