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This chapter will cover recent research in historical economics that uses ethnographic data and data from surveys and … lab experiments. The study of historical economics, particularly outside of non-Western countries, has been constrained by …
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I reflect on the role of modern economic history in economics. I document a substantial increase in the percentage of … past has contributed to economics by providing ground to test economic theory, improve economic policy, understand economic … those of other economists in the economics job market. I speculate how the increase in availability of high quality micro …
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-authored than articles published in leading general economics journals. However, in both economic history and general economics …-authored papers. Economics and economic history differ in the nature of collaboration, in that co-authorships in economic history are … more likely to be formed of individuals of different seniority as compared to economics generally …
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In the United States today the academic field of economic history is much closer to economics than it is to history in … terms of professional behavior, a stylized fact that I call the “integration of economic history into economics”. I document … history and economics; and publication histories of successive cohorts of PhDs in the first decade since receiving the …
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The analysis of historical natural experiments has profoundly impacted economics research across fields. We trace the … development and increasing application of the methodology, both from the perspective of economic historians and from the …
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In this essay I review Sylvia Nasar's long awaited new history of economics, Grand Pursuit. I describe how the book is … and foibles to show they are human! I contrast the general view of the role of economics in Grand Pursuit with Robert …
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-purpose publication with highly disparate content. Over time the economics profession expanded and more economics research was produced …
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Economics and history both strive to understand causation: economics using instrumental variables econometrics and …
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We summarize existing empirical findings regarding the adoption of robotics and AI and its effects on aggregated labor and productivity, and argue for more systematic collection of the use of these technologies at the firm level. Existing empirical work primarily uses statistics aggregated by...
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We show that online prices can be used to construct quarterly purchasing power parities (PPPs) with a closely-matched set of goods and identical methodologies in a variety of developed and developing countries. Our results are close to those reported by the International Comparisons Program...
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