Sentences with phrase «work by economists»

You see this type of work by economists all the time.

While the public discussion around college usually focuses on the price paid by students, recent work by economists David Deming and Chris Walters suggests that declines in the amount colleges and universities spend may have a larger impact on student outcomes.

Recent work by economists and other academic researchers — some of it presented at a recent symposium at Columbia University («The Social Costs of Inadequate Education»)-- concluded that such investments have large payoffs in raising national income and tax revenues and reducing the cost of public services.

The article references work by economist William Nordhaus to try and justify climate inaction.

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The theme of the paper, co-authored by Commerce Secretary nominee Wilbur Ross and White House National Trade Council head Peter Navarro, an economist and University of California at Irvine business professor, is shifting the ownership and operation of public works to the private sector.

When the U.S. ended the bracero program 1964, which had allowed large numbers of Mexicans to work on U.S. farms, neither the wages nor the employment rates of U.S. farm workers rose, according to recent research by economists Michael Clemens, Hannah Postel and me.

The work was done by economists Matthew Gibson and Jeffrey Shrader, and it analyzes time use day from the American Time Use Survey, which asks Americans to give detailed accounts of how they spend their days.

According to a working paper by three Stanford University economists and an economist for eBay Research Labs, posted by the National Bureau of Economic Research, buyers just think auctions aren't worth the trouble — even if it means getting a better price.

The wages might have been boosted by a decline in hours worked, but frankly that's a minor detail in a splurge of good news,» said Ward McCarthy, chief financial economist at Jefferies.

Justin Wolfers, an associate professor of business and public policy at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, argued those working in the field of happiness economics mistakenly imagine that the world is run by legions of politicians and economists whose love of GDP approaches religious fervor.

Last year, economists at the central bank published a working paper that sought to understand the overall weakness of Canadian exports by investigating the foreign sales of dozens of industrial subgroups.

In the years before World War II, British economist John Maynard Keynes boldly predicted that by the time his grandchildren were grown, the average person would spend just 15 hours a week at work, thanks to technological innovations.

As argued here by the IMF economists who worked -LSB-...]

While these figures are undoubtedly good news for the private sector battered by high unemployment and anemic growth, it's far too early to celebrate, says Russell Investments» chief economist Mike Dueker, who adds that recent unemployment figures are in part the result of people no longer looking for work.

Co-author of the bestselling book The Content Formula, Michael's work has been featured by The Economist, The Guardian, and Entrepreneur Magazine.

The premise of Shiller's work on asset bubbles has been long accepted by economists; demand for an asset becomes detached from fundamental factors and appears to be built on rapid increases in market value.

In the end Gallienus decides to pay for the celebrations using direct theft (by confiscating and then selling the estates of his enemies and those of their families), but the final sentence of the above excerpt from a work of historical fiction reveals more knowledge of how monetary inflation works than is found in the writings of most Keynesian economists.

The research team's work was reviewed by an independent Risky Business Expert Review Panel composed of leading climate scientists and economists.

Indeed, by â $ ˜weâ $ ™, do we mean economists working in large international institutions, in governments, and in central banks?

An economist (Canterbury, UK 1983) and banker (DK Bankers Association 1987) by training, he started his career by working for Crocker National Bank, a major US bank in San Francisco before moving to Nordea Bank in 1986, first in Copenhagen and subsequently in Geneva.

A study by Dartmouth economist Bruce Sacerdote found that family income and neighborhood income have no effect on adoptee's success in school and work.

There is much responsible work being done by economists on the causes of that bubble, but none of it treats the number of two - parent families as significant.

It is caused chiefly by kleptocratic governments or private interests in league with governments that make market exchange unprofitable, that make investment in producing something to exchange silly, that encourage achieving private wealth at the cost of other people's wealth instead of by working, saving and inventing (economists know this last by the odd term «rent seeking»).

According to Davison Budhoo, an economist who had worked with both the World Bank and the IMP before he quit the latter in protest against its policies, on the basis of the figures released by UNICEF, it is estimated that those policies led directly to the death of 70 million children under 5 years in the Third World between the years 1982 - 1990 and indirectly to the destitution and impoverishment of several hundred millions more 8.

13 % Price Rise for Medal - Winning Wines, Says New Study A working paper posted yesterday on the website of the American Association of Wine Economists claims that producers can increase their prices by 13 % if they gain a medal in a wine competition...

It is rather depressing the work done by economists on birth... as an economist, I find it incredibly disappointing and am amazed by how small changes in the approach would greatly improve the quality of the work (little things like looking beyond the first month post-birth).

Economists distinguish a number of types of unemployment, however: cyclical unemployment is brought about by the vagaries of the business cycle; structural unemployment is brought about by changes in the economy or the labour market, when the jobs available do not fit the workforce's skills; frictional unemployment is the phenomenon of people being «between jobs»; and seasonal unemployment is linked to certain types of seasonal jobs, such as farm work and construction.

Vacherot thus reverses the definition of the liberty of work that we find amongst economists, according to which it is by working for the self first that one works for all:

Many of the city's largest civic groups, many economists and West Side neighborhood groups agreed with Mr. Silver's opposition, though sometimes for different reasons, saying the stadium would hurt development by discouraging office tenants and residents who would not want to work and live next to it.

Resolution's chief economist Matthew Whittaker suggests the best way of targeting these households would be to undo planned cuts to universal credit set in motion by Hammond's predecessor George Osborne and to suspend the four - year cash freeze in working age benefits.

In the United States, the regions hardest hit by globalization have become more politically extreme, according to a working paper published in September by David Autor, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and his colleagues.

The findings, by economists John Cawley of Cornell and David Frisvold of the University of Iowa, appear in the National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, «The Incidence of Taxes on Sugar - Sweetened Beverages: The Case of Berkeley, California,» published Aug. 17.

«Knowledge produced by one researcher is both an output and an input into another researcher's [work],» write economists George Borjas of Harvard University and Kirk Doran of the University of Notre Dame in a recently published study.

He says that it's important to distinguish between facts and opinion, which is why he found «odd and distasteful» an undergraduate course in macroeconomics taught by Paul Krugman, the outspoken liberal economist who in 2008 would win a Nobel Prize in economic sciences for his work on international trade patterns.

Attracting Talent: Location Choices of Foreign - Born PhDs in the US, by economists Jeffrey Grogger of the University of Chicago and Gordon H. Hanson of the University of California, San Diego, looks back over 5 decades of data from the National Science Foundation's Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED) to identify the factors that influence how newly graduated scientists decide where to live and work.

Maine laboratories are finding unconventional ways to fund science and technology, touted by politicians and economists alike as a key economic and educational driver in the state, as the federal government again threatens to cut money for their work.

I am a conpetent economist by my profession and i have once worked in textile store, a collection of textiles design and sewing materials and i was lay off job in upper last year December 17th and hunt for job.

I am a competent economist by my profession and i have once worked in textile store, a collection of textiles design and sewing materials and i was lay off job in last year December 17th and hunt for job.

Wednesday was a very good day for Behavioral Economics as Barack Obama formally recognized it by releasing an executive order mandating the use of behavioral economists work in more areas of government around the USA.

The New York City Department of Education ventured into pay - for - performance for students beginning this year with two pilot projects developed by Harvard University economist Roland G. Fryer, who is working pro bono as the department's chief equality officer.

The event comes as it was found by Money Advice Service that at least 18.5 million working age adults have «poor or low» numeracy levels, and economist reported that poor numeracy costs the UK up to # 20.2 billion a year.

Division of labor has worked wonders for the production of clothing, computers, and automobiles — but it doesn't have the same transformational effect on productivity in teaching, a new study by economist Roland G. Fryer Jr., finds.

[xxxii] This point has been made by Goldrick - Rab, Kelchen, & Houle (2014), as well as by Susan Dynarski (2014), «An Economist's Perspective on Student Loans in the United States,» Economic Studies Working Paper Series, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution.

Hoover Institution scholar Eric Hanushek built on Miller's remarks by reporting that, according to work he did with University of Munich economist Ludger Woessmann, the United States could boost its annual GDP growth rate by more than 1 percentage point annually by raising student math performance to levels currently attained in countries such as Canada and Korea.

Research — like this recent working paper by Harvard Graduate School of Education economist David Deming — shows a clear connection between earnings over time and social skills, including how well you can work on a team.

Btw, is Krueger the same guy that worked with Card on trying to show that raising the minimum wage does not increase unemployment and their work was thrashed by economists for being so horrific and sloppy in their methodology?

A recent National Bureau of Economic Research working paper by [Chris] Karbownik and three co-authors — University of Toronto economist Elizabeth Dhuey, Northwestern economist David Figlio and University of Florida researcher Jeffrey Roth — analyzed public - school and other records for Florida.

A new working paper authored by the UC Berkeley economist Jesse Rothstein builds on that research, in part by zeroing in on one of those five factors: schools.

Flowers: «That said, I felt like the criticism of the CFR work by other academic economists, as well as the general caution of the ASA, warranted inclusion — and so I reached out to Jesse Rothstein, the most respected «anti-VAM» economist, for comment.

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