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This is the first paper that studies the causal effect of studying economics on subjective well being. Based on a survey among 918 students of economics and other social sciences, we estimate the effects of studying in the different fields on individual life satisfaction. Controling for personal...
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In this paper, we examine students' attitudes towards various allocation mechanisms for a scarce resource. For this purpose, we have run a survey among officers of the German military who are enrolled in different courses of study (such as economics) at the University of the German Federal Armed...
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sozialwissenschaftlichen Panelstudien in Deutschland überblicksartig zu präsentieren, deren anonymisierte Mikrodaten für die unabhängige …: Wirtschafts- und sozialwissenschaftliche Panelstudien in Deutschland - ein Überblick. - Wagner, Gert: Ein Diskussionsbeitrag zur … Arbeitslosigkeitsdauer in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland - eine Analyse der Querschnitts- und Längsschnittsdimension). - III. Personen …
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A large literature following Hirsch (2005) has proposed citation-based indexes that could be used to rank academics. This paper examines how well several such indexes match labor market outcomes using data on the citation records of young tenured economists at 25 U.S. departments. Variants of...
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We exploit a rich administrative panel data-set for cohorts of Economics students at a UK university in order to identify causal effects of class absence on student performance. We utilise the panel properties of the data to control for unobserved heterogeneity across students and hence for...
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