N. Gregory Mankiw
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 ...
The latter explanation is known as the “cohort effect” (or the age class effect) and can also be applied to the r
Although the U.S. protectionist policies may, in the medium term, cause minor harm to the Chinese economy, they, in general, will fail to have any significant negative impact on China owing to the strength of the country's manufacturing sector, which is much greater than that of the United...
that you are faced with a survey question that asks you to rate youraltruismon a scale of 1 to 5. If you are in an economics class, you may want to show your professor how rational you are by choosing 1 as an answer. Or if you think your answer will be observed by an experimenter...
Chapter 1: Introduction1.1A More Formal Introduction to IO1. Why are markets organized or structured as they are? Four aspects:(a) Firm boundariesVertical integration: sequential production stages are organized within a single firmOutsourcing: purchase the service or input; not internally carry out...
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-...
This paper investigates the relationship between the inter-generational transmission of educational achievement (“test-score transmission”) and
These fixed effects cover factors such as the completion day of the diaries, residential region, social class, occupation, and health status. Additionally, the estimates incorporate sample weights provided by the CaDDI data at the individual level. We report robust standard errors. Equation (1) ...