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Helping small business earn bigger profits

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What types of training are most effective at helping microenterprises grow?

Congratulations to William Nordhaus and Paul Romer on Being Awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

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October 08, 2018

American economists lauded for having 鈥渄esigned methods for addressing some of our time鈥檚 most basic and pressing questions."

Mathiness in the Theory of Economic Growth

By Paul M. Romer

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2015

Mathiness lets academic politics masquerade as science. Like mathematical theory, mathiness uses a mixture of words and symbols, but instead of making tight links, it leaves ample room for slippage between statements in the languages of words as opposed t...

Instructions for Posting on the EconTrack Job Market Information Board

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All quiet on the job front

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October 01, 2018

How costly are recessions for veterans?

On the wrong track

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An education reform at the University of Cape Town offers lessons on grouping students by academic achievement.

Boosting mobile savings

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October 08, 2018

Can automatic enrollments encourage saving in developing countries?

Bloomberg features EconSpark discussion

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October 19, 2018

Columnist Noah Smith highlights newly launched forum in an article about whether low interest rates encourage risk taking.

Hurt on the job

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States are trying to rein in workers' compensation costs. How does that affect earnings for injured employees?

Modern family

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October 10, 2018

How do parental leave policies affect relationship stability at home?

Choice, Consideration Sets, and Attribute Filters

By Mert Kimya

蝌蚪网 Journal: Microeconomics, November 2018

It is well known that decision makers do not always consider all of the available alternatives when making a choice. When the alternatives have attributes, these attributes provide a natural way to form the consideration set. I assume a procedure in which...

Majority Choice of an Income-Targeted Educational Voucher

By Dennis Epple, Richard Romano, and Sinan 厂补谤辫莽补

蝌蚪网 Journal: Microeconomics, November 2018

A model of majority choice of voucher characteristics with quantitative counterpart explains observed income eligibility requirements for educational vouchers. Households differ by income and preference for religious schooling. They elect a policy maker w...

Russell Sage Foundation 2019 Summer Institutes

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October 29, 2018

The application deadlines are in January and February 2019 for these summer institutes.

From Selling Goods to Selling Services: Firm Responses to Trade Liberalization

By Holger Breinlich, Anson Soderbery, and Greg C. Wright

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy, November 2018

In this paper we focus on a new channel of adaptation to trade liberalization, namely the shift toward increased provision of services in lieu of goods production. We exploit variation in European Union trade policy to show that lower manufacturing tariff...

A Dynamic Model of Housing Supply

By Alvin Murphy

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy, November 2018

This paper estimates a dynamic microeconometric model of housing supply. The model features forward-looking landowners who optimally choose both the timing and the nature of construction while taking into account expectations about future prices and costs...

The Persistent Effects of Place-Based Policy: Evidence from the West-German Zonenrandgebiet

By Maximilian v. Ehrlich and Tobias Seidel

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy, November 2018

Using a natural experiment, we show that temporary place-based subsidies generate persistent effects on economic density. The spatial regression discontinuity design controls for continuous local agglomeration externalities, so we attribute an important r...

E-cigarettes, socio-economics of LGBTI, and kidney donors

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July 17, 2018

Reading recommendations from Timothy Taylor, managing editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives

The Halloween Indicator, "Sell in May and Go Away": Another Puzzle

By Sven Bouman and Ben Jacobsen

蝌蚪网 Review, December 2002

Paranormal stock activity

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An old stock market puzzle is still stumping economists.