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This paper provides a systematic assessment of academic economics teaching, research and policy advice in Germany. It … economics as a discipline. …
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Traditionally, students of economics have often been told that it is a non-experimental science. Using a quantitative … and qualitative analysis of introductory economics textbooks, we track the historical evolution of this rhetoric from 1970 … experimentation in economics. Remarks that experiments are impossible in economics have been (almost) eliminated only this decade …
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as providing better information about the application of economics, exposing students to role models, and updating course …Economics is among the most popular undergraduate majors. However, even at the best research universities and liberal … arts colleges men outnumber women by two to one, and overall there are about 2.5 males to every female economics major. The …
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survey among 918 students of economics and other social sciences, we estimate the effects of studying in the different fields …This is the first paper that studies the causal effect of studying economics on subjective well being. Based on a … methods developed in labor and conflict economics. We find a positive relationship between the study of economics and …
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Economics needs a set of agreed facts to create a scientific economic paradigm, without which economics remains trapped … progress which defines modern civilization. Misguided by some philosophers of science, economics has put the theoretical cart …
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, women graduate from lower ranked PhD programs than do men. Students who major or minor in both economics and math graduate … from significantly better PhD programs than do students who major or minor in economics but not math …We examine the pre-graduate school characteristics of American PhD students graduating from the top 50 American …
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in the Economics gender gap among treated students. …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 …
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, it is often ignored (as is most history) in current core and advanced courses in undergraduate business, economics and …
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