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by Mario J. Rizzo and Glen Whitman Book description The burgeoning field of behavioral economics has produced a new set of justifications for paternalism. This book challenges behavioral paternalism on multiple levels, from the abstract and conceptual to the pragmatic and applied. Behavioral paternalism relies on a needlessly restrictive definition of rational behavior. It neglects...
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This post analyzes the representation of, and collaboration among, female authors of NBER working papers over the last four decades. My analysis uses paper-author correspondences provided by the R package nberwp. Estimating sexes I estimate authors' sexes using the R package gender, which provides access to historical baby name data from the US Social Security Administration. I focus on baby names between 1940 and 1995 because these roughly correspond to (what I expect are) the birth years of authors who...
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uses the tools of modern economics and game theory to explore how the interaction of intelligent goal-seeking individuals determines social outcomes
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I want to debunk once and for all this idea that "science is just another religion". It isn't, for one simple reason: all religions are bas...
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