In June of 2018, John List, a professor in the economics department, introduced a new specialization to the major: business economics. The introduction of this new track, with its highly ...

Mark Thoma is obviously right that academic economists should listen more to practitioners – both economists who who work outside the academy and also, although he does not stress this point, to those ...

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The American Economist is a leading refereed journal published by the International Honor Society in Economics – Omicron Delta Epsilon – for the enhancement of research in economics. It publishes ...

Vol. 111, PAPERS AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE One Hundred Thirty-Third Annual Meeting OF THE AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION (MAY 2021), pp. 74-79 (6 pages) This paper investigates the impact of gender ...

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