Search Results - "Journal of economic literature"

Using Synthetic Controls: Feasibility, Data Requirements, and Methodological Aspects by Abadie, Alberto

“…Probably because of their interpretability and transparent nature, synthetic controls have become widely applied in empirical research in economics and the…”
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Digital Economics by Goldfarb, Avi, Tucker, Catherine

“…Digital technology is the representation of information in bits. This technology has reduced the cost of storage, computation, and transmission of data…”
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The gender wage gap: Extent, trends, and explanations by Blau, Francine D, Kahn, Lawrence M

“…Using Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) microdata over the 1980–2010 period, we provide new empirical evidence on the extent of and trends in the gender…”
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Text as Data by Gentzkow, Matthew, Kelly, Bryan, Taddy, Matt

“…An ever-increasing share of human interaction, communication, and culture is recorded as digital text. We provide an introduction to the use of text as an…”
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Childhood Circumstances and Adult Outcomes: Act II by Almond, Douglas, Currie, Janet, Duque, Valentina

“…That prenatal events can have life-long consequences is now well established. Nevertheless, research on the fetal origins hypothesis is flourishing and has…”
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Culture and Institutions by Alesina, Alberto, Giuliano, Paola

“…A growing body of empirical work measunng different types of cultural traits has shown that culture matters for a variety of economic outcomes. This paper…”
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The Economics of Privacy by Acquisti, Alessandro, Taylor, Curtis, Wagman, Liad

“…This article summarizes and draws connections among diverse streams of theoretical and empirical research on the economics of privacy. We focus on the economic…”
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Information Design: A Unified Perspective by Bergemann, Dirk, Morris, Stephen

“…Given a game with uncertain payoffs, information design analyzes the extent to which the provision of information alone can influence the behavior of the…”
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Tax Compliance and Enforcement by Slemrod, Joel

“…This paper reviews recent economic research in tax compliance and enforcement. After briefly laying out the economics of tax evasion, it focuses on recent…”
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The Formation of Expectations, Inflation, and the Phillips Curve by Coibion, Olivier, Gorodnichenko, Yuriy, Kamdar, Rupal

“…This paper argues for a careful (re)consideration of the expectations formation process and a more systematic inclusion of real-time expectations through…”
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Model Averaging and Its Use in Economics by Steel, Mark F. J.

“…The method of model averaging has become an important tool to deal with model uncertainty, for example in situations where a large amount of different theories…”
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Criminal Deterrence: A Review of the Literature by Chalfin, Aaron, McCrary, Justin

“…We review economics research regarding the effect of police, punishments, and work on crime, with a particular focus on papers from the last twenty years…”
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Transparency, Reproducibility, and the Credibility of Economics Research by Christensen, Garret, Miguel, Edward

“…There is growing interest in enhancing research transparency and reproducibility in economics and other scientific fields. We survey existing work on these…”
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The economic importance of financial literacy: theory and evidence: Theory and evidence by Lusardi, Annamaria, Mitchell, Olivia S

“…This paper undertakes an assessment of a rapidly growing body of economic research on financial literacy. We start with an overview of theoretical research,…”
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Experimental Research on Labor Market Discrimination by Neumark, David

“…Understanding whether labor market discrimination explains inferior labor market outcomes for many groups has drawn the attention of labor economists for…”
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What Do We Learn from the Weather? The New Climate–Economy Literature by Dell, Melissa, Jones, Benjamin F., Olken, Benjamin A.

“…A rapidly growing body of research applies panel methods to examine how temperature, precipitation, and windstorms influence economic outcomes. These studies…”
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Potential Outcome and Directed Acyclic Graph Approaches to Causality: Relevance for Empirical Practice in Economics by Imbens, Guido W.

“…In this essay I discuss potential outcome and graphical approaches to causality, and their relevance for empirical work in economics. I review some of the work…”
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Publishing and Promotion in Economics: The Tyranny of the Top Five by Heckman, James J., Moktan, Sidharth

“…This paper examines the relationship between placement of publications in top five (T5) journals and receipt of tenure in academic economics departments…”
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Contagion in Financial Networks by Glasserman, Paul, Young, H. Peyton

“…The recent financial crisis has prompted much new research on the interconnectedness of the modern financial system and the extent to which it contributes to…”
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Information Avoidance by Golman, Russell, Hagmann, David, Loewenstein, George

“…We commonly think of information as a means to an end. However, a growing theoretical and experimental literature suggests that information may directly enter…”
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