Is the economic and financial crisis also a crisis of Economics? From different perspectives, today there is rather … harsh criticism of Economics as a Social Science. In this paper, first, some of the recent failures of Economics are … economic model of behaviour, the mathematisation of Economics and the principle of value freedom. The ap-propriate role of the …

We investigate the gender gap in Economics among bachelor's and master's graduates in Italy between 2010 and 2019 …. First we establish that being female exerts a negative impact on the choice to major in Economics: at the bachelor level …, only 73 women graduate in Economics for every 100 men, with the mathematical content of high school curricula as the key …

We investigate the gender gap in Economics among bachelor's and master's grad- uates in Italy between 2010 and 2019 …. First we establish that being female exerts a negative impact on the choice to major in Economics: at the bachelor level …, only 73 women graduate in Economics for every 100 men, with the mathematical con- tent of high school curricula as the key …

Economics has always had a difficult relationship with literature. Although early economists such as Adam Smith adopted …, economics had become professionalised into a self-contained discipline expressed in mathematical language and making little … effort to communicate with the general reader. The current paper looks at this anti-literary trend in economics and considers …

economic men and women can be. Behavioral economics - an effort to incorporate psychological ideas into economics - has become … all the rage.This book by well-known economist David K. Levine questions the idea that behavioral economics is the answer … to economic problems. It explores the successes and failures of contemporary economics both inside and outside the …

incidence of lateness and skipping school compared with boys, which in turn improves girls' test scores in mathematics, science … wage gap results in a 0.20%, 0.13% or 0.06% increase in test scores for mathematics, science, and reading, respectively. …

from the setting of mathematics, this paper establishes two results. First, we document that individuals who demonstrate …

negative impact on performance in mathematics and that social emotional skills can help students deal with bullying. Several …

In this paper, we decompose worldwide PISA mathematics and reading scores. While mathematics scores are still tilted … towards boys, girls have a larger advantage in reading over boys. Girls' disadvantage in mathematics is increasing over the …