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Online quizzes can motivate students to learn more

A large fraction of students fail at university. One potential reason is that students do not exercise enough effort on […]

Which kids are born in a crisis? Evidence from the fall of the Berlin Wall

By Arnaud Chevalier and Olivier Marie Do individuals born at different points of the economic cycle have different outcomes, and […]

How many participants do you need to detect a treatment effect?

Experiments are commonly used in economics to test whether certain factors affect, for example, the behavior of consumers or the […]

Online quizzes can motivate students to learn more

A large fraction of students fail at university. One potential reason is that students do not exercise enough effort on […]

Beware of moral hazard: Joint unemployment insurance for the EMU

The ongoing crisis calls for better fiscal cooperation within the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Beyond tax policy coordination, […]

Should housework be shared more equally between partners?

Women do more housework than men. For most of history this phenomenon went largely unremarked. Housework was what women did, […]

Can migration boost incomes, happiness and freedom satisfaction?

By Carol Graham and Milena Nikolova The recent economic crisis and the subsequent lagging economic recovery renewed the immigration debate […]

Why aging and working makes us happy – in four charts

By Carol Graham and Milena Nikolova In the past few years, economists and other social scientists have made great strides […]

Immigrant women: Not just secondary workers any more

Immigrant women in the labor market have long been viewed as “secondary workers” who work in unskilled jobs, mainly as […]

Where does the gender gap in economics enrolment arise?

Although women account for 57% of all students at UK universities, the share of female economics students is only about […]

Grades and rank: How do they affect student effort?

The educational system is built upon a sequence of tests to measure student performance. Improving student performance is a key […]

Ethnically diverse co-authors produce better research papers

Thinking about a new research paper? You may want to start searching for co-authors of different ethnicity. Statistically, this will […]

Flexible working hours improve job satisfaction

Temporal and locational flexibility (TLF) is an important element in current policy debates about working conditions and the combination of […]

Peter Kuhn on the internet as a labor market matchmaker

Since the internet’s earliest days, firms and workers have used various online methods to advertise and find jobs. Until recently […]

Chinese imports push low-skilled Norwegians into unemployment

China’s rise to global economic power has had a major impact on the recent globalization process. In 2009, China became […]

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