What is all the hype about regarding action research (AR)? What does AR mean in layman’s terms? Why do we need AR? Who should conduct AR? Where and when should it be conducted? These questions may seem easy for a person experienced in performing AR, but it does not have to be only for the...

The U.S. Constitution provides that “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States.” Today, however, the foremost source of rules governing private conduct at the federal level is not Congress, but administrative agencies. The U.S. Code is replete...

Change is hardly a new feature in human affairs. Yet something has begun to change in change. In the face of a range of emerging, complex, and interconnected global challenges, society’s collective governance efforts may need to be put on a different footing. Many of these challenges derive...

Analysts using the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS) often require information on earnings, labor market attachment, and social security benefits in order to better understand the factors affecting retirement and well-being at older ages. To this end, several derived variables were constructed...

Using tools from social network analysis, we study citation patterns since the early 1990s in the two most important journals in economic methodology (aka philosophy of economics). We mostly focus on assessing four historical claims in the existing interpretive literature. In agreement with the...

Conceptual metaphors in the economic discourse appeal interest as they are a complex combination of linguistic, pragmatic, sociocultural, psychological and other factors of speech production. Since economic texts have to perform a lot of functions (informative, entertaining, educational,...

This paper advances the use of pre-analysis plans in non-experimental research settings. In a study of recent minimum wage changes, we demonstrate how analyses of medium- and long-run impacts of policy interventions can be pre-specified as extensions to short-run analyses. Further, our...

Recent studies that aim to estimate the causal link between the education of parents and their children provide evidence that is far from conclusive. This paper explores why. There are a number of possible explanations. One is that these studies rely on different data sources, gathered in...

Thirty-four recent studies have investigated the effect of currency union on trade, resulting in 754 point estimates of the effect. This paper is a quantitative attempt to summarize the current state of debate; meta-analysis is used to combine the disparate estimates. The chief findings are that:...