This study examines publications in three leading general economics journals from the 1960s through the 2020s …

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 … methods developed in labor and conflict economics. We find a positive relationship between the study of economics and …

produced and in agreement with Milton Friedman's view on positive economics. Female economists are at some notable points less …What role do personal values play in the practice of economists? By means of a survey among economists working inside … values summarize the value structure of economists: achievement, serving the public interest, and conformity to rules …

Economists have provided multiple pictures of how human beings’ aims work. Some have claimed that preferences are … economists to have empirical input into moral discourse. Furthermore, the previous views imply their own particular defenses of …

Despite the social importance of awards, they have been largely disregarded by academic research in economics. This … paper investigates whether a specific, yet important, award in economics, the John Bates Clark Medal, raises recipients …

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 … methods developed in labor and conflict economics. We find a positive relationship between the study of economics and …

study of economics influences students' view on profit maximization and the market mechanism. We find that there are … significant differences between economics students and the others, suggesting the presence of both a selection bias against the … market system in non economics students and a treatment effect in economics students …

National defense is the textbook example of a public good. In order to understand how economists present public goods … to undergraduates, we analyze 50 texts from across three widely taught undergraduate economics courses: principles of … economics, intermediate microeconomics, and public finance. We find that textbooks overwhelmingly present national defense as a …

possibly overlapping projects. We bring our model to the data by analyzing the coauthorship network of economists registered in … institutions and compare them with the economics funding program of the National Science Foundation. Our results indicate that …