The latter explanation is known as the “cohort effect” (or the age class effect) and can also be applied to the r
Experimental economicsis a relatively new field, with the first academic papers published in the 1960s. Only in the past few years has experimental economics become so widely accepted that virtually every economics department believes that it should have an experimentalist on the faculty and train it...
Previous literature has established that lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) people are at least as likely to be poor as heterosexual people, standing in cont
Recall, that in our sample subjects transfer 58% of their total earnings to the charity, while only transferring 32.19% and 32.69% to class and freshman subjects respectively, a difference of about 26 percentage points. Eckel and Grossman (1996) test for differences in dictator transfers to a ...
Without exception these young economists admired and adored him; two of them, Scott Stern and Shane Greenstein, were my former colleagues, and the three of us were instrumental in Northwestern awarding him an honorary doctorate in 2006, in the same class of honorary degrees as the then little-...
When I was in high school, my English teacher must have had a free period at the time when my math class met, because every day he would march into the math class and empty his pockets on the table, whereupon my math teacher did the same. Then whoever had put down the most money ...
Interested readers are encouraged to read Richard Florida's various papers on the "creative class" as well as subsequent critiques. 1 24 Cisco IBSG © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. White Paper capacity (including planning and governance) will be able to take full ...
Some argued that there would be an overestimation of the returns to this type of human capital, which would capture the effect of factors such as experience, natural ability, social class, and family connections (Renshaw [1960]). Moreover, and because these were hard to specify and measure,...
Self-employment information is based on the class of worker question, which indicates if respondents worked for their own enterprise(s) or for someone else as employees.Footnote 14Entry equals 1 if the respondent is not self-employed in time t, but becomes self-employed at time t + 1,...
Footnote52and in influencing decision-making processes, information systems and accountability towards civil society.Footnote53However, in treating gender and management issues, it is important to consider their intersectionality with other life categories such as class, age, education, sexual orientation....