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Writing Tips for Crafting Effective Economics Research Papers – 2023-2024 Edition

Nikolov, Plamen - 2023

This paper aims to provide insights for those who value careful, precise communication to draft effective economics papers. It is designed to be a helpful and convenient guide, which is divided into well-defined, thought-provoking sections.

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Biology and Gender in the Labor Market

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2016

Can biology help us to better understand gender differences in labor market behavior and outcomes? This chapter reviews the emerging literature which sheds light on this question, considering research in four broad areas: i) behavioral endocrinology; ii) human genetics; iii) neuroeconomics; and...

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Income Volatility and Health

Halliday, Timothy J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We investigate the impact of exogenous income fluctuations on health using twenty years ofdata from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics using techniques from the literature on theestimation of dynamic panel data models....

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Earnings Over the Lifecycle:The Mincer Earnings Function and Its Applications

Polachek, Solomon W. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand how earnings aredistributed across the population. In the years since Mincers seminal work, he as well as hisstudents and colleagues extended the original human capital model, reaching importantconclusions about a whole array...

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Income Shocks, Bride Price and Child Marriage in Turkey

Chort, Isabelle; Hotte, Rozenn; Marazyan, Karine - 2022

(endogamy, age and education difference between spouses). Weather shocks provide an exogenous source of variation of household … income through agricultural production. Data on weather shocks are merged with individual and household level data from the … household strategies aimed at mitigating negative income shocks in contemporary Turkey. …

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The Evolution of Inequality in Education Trajectories and Graduation Outcomes in the US

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen; Liu, Xingfei - 2022

We model the joint distribution of (i) individual education trajectories, defined by the allocation of time (semesters) between various combinations of school enrollment with different labor supply modalities and periods of school interruption devoted either to employment or home production and...

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The Subjective Inflation Expectations of Households and Firms: Measurement, Determinants, and Implications

Weber, Michael; D’Acunto, Francesco; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2022

Households' and firms' subjective inflation expectations play a central role in macroeconomic and intertemporal microeconomic models. We discuss how subjective inflation expectations are measured, the patterns they display, their determinants, and how they shape households' and firms' economic...

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A Field Study of Age Discrimination in the Workplace: The Importance of Gender and Race. Pay the Gap

Drydakis, Nick; Paraskevopoulou, Anna; Bozani, Vasiliki - 2022

The study examines whether age intersects with gender and race during the initial stage of the hiring process and affects access to vacancies outcomes and wage sorting. In order to answer the research question the study collects data from four simultaneous field experiments in England. The study...

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Are Environmental Concerns Deterring People from Having Children?

Lockwood, Ben; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2022

Are 'green' environmental concerns -- about climate change, biodiversity, pollution -- deterring today's citizens from having children? This paper, which we believe to be the first of its kind, reports preliminary evidence consistent with that increasingly discussed hypothesis. Our study has a...

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Integrating Gender into a Labor Economics Class

Strenio, Jacqueline; van der Meulen Rodgers, Yana - 2023

This article argues that a systematic integration of gender into labor economics courses based on standard textbooks is both beneficial and straightforward. An undergraduate course in labor economics presents an ideal opportunity to introduce students to the importance of gender differences in...

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