This paper tested competing arguments that foreign aid can substantially aggravate the patterns of underdevelopment in previous British colonies. I followed the Center for Global Development in taking into account Amartya Sen’s...
Anthony Underwood is a professor of Economics at Dickinson College., Evans, Samuel, Anthony Underwood, and Andrew Seidl. Beyond GDP: Measuring Progress Towards a Green Economy. IUCN’S Environmental Economics Occasional Paper...
Anthony Underwood is a professor of Economics at Dickinson College., Underwood, Anthony, and Anders Fremstad. Does Sharing Backfire? A Decomposition of Household and Urban Economies in CO2 Emissions. Energy Policy 123 (2018):...
This paper analyses the equilibrium dynamics of exploitation and class in accumulation economies with population growth, technical change and bargaining by adopting a novel computational approach. First, the determinants of the...
This research paper will examine gender inequalities in formal education in India and Republic of Korea from a Gender and Development perspective. Gender and Development perspective builds on the human development framework...
For more information on the published version, visit Wiley's Website., Disaster damage levels are matched to county-level nonprofit activity indicators. Using dynamic panel-data estimation, nonprofit net assets (and nonprofit...
This paper studies the effect of recreational and sporting services public expenditures on the medal shares of countries at the Summer Olympic Games. Using data on Olympic medals from 1996 to 2012 and a dynamic fixed effects...
For more information on the published version, visit Cambridge University Press's Website., Emily Marshall is a professor of Economics at Dickinson College., Marshall, Emily C., Hoang Nguyen, and Paul Shea. "Endogenous Growth...
The Household Registration System of China, commonly known as the hukou system, has been an influential institution that controls internal migration. This paper investigates the effectiveness of the 2014 hukou reform in...
Anthony Underwood is a professor of Economics at Dickinson College., Zahren, Sammy, Terrence Iverson, Stephan Weiler, and Anthony Underwood. "Evidence That the Accuracy of Self-Reported Lead Emissions Data Improved: A Puzzle...
Managerial economics is one of the most applied areas of economics. Managerial economics teaches students how to use the tools of economics to, make decisions. As a result, this class is most effective if it simulates what...
We examine whether access to higher education impacts household saving rates. A 2-period model of household saving decisions demonstrates why increased college opportunities induce households with children to save more. We...
In this thesis, I examine the causes and outcomes of the 2007–2009 recession, and the subsequent policy measures through a gender lens. From a feminist economic perspective, I examine the roles played by gender and racial...
Instructors teaching empirical techniques in managerial economics or economic and business statistics courses often face a dilemma. The typical student in these classes has less mathematical sophistication than those in...
Shamma Alam is a professor of International Studies at Dickinson College., OBJECTIVE: Since physical inactivity has been identified as a pandemic and a public health priority, it is crucial to understand the role of adverse...
Al-Bahrani, Abdullah, Maria Apostolova-Mihaylova, and Emily C. Marshall. Helping Some and Harming Others: Homework Frequency and Tradeoffs in Student Performance. The Journal of Economic Education 53, no. 3 (2022) 197-209....
For more information on the published versions, visit HuffPost's Website., Neil Leary's HuffPost blog posts include: -Can Colleges Create a Climate for Pricing Carbon. - Date posted, May 9, 2017. -"Nitrogen Pollution: An...
From 2012 to 2019, the proportion of undergraduate economics degrees denoted as “Econometrics and Quantitative Economics” (STEM-eligible) conferred annually increased from 1 percent to 22 percent. The authors present results...
Emily Marshall is a professor of Economics at Dickinson College., The authors of this article examine trends in the economics discipline regarding the classification of some undergraduate economics majors, i.e., econometrics...
As the field of economics has spread in scope, it is now used in almost every field of study. Individuals, organizations, and professionals all use economics to evaluate their practices and decisions. One area that economics...
Since 1991 Kazakhstan has sought national security through economic growth and energy security fostered on its immense wealth of oil, natural gas, and other natural resources. Simultaneously Kazakhstan seeks to position itself...
Economic education has emerged as an important subfield in economics over the last several decades. This paper explores the author gender breakdown found in economic education journals compared to top-tier, general-interest...
We use a two-sector dynamic deterministic general equilibrium model that specifically accounts for trends among time-series variables to estimate the size of the shadow economy for the 50 U.S. states from 1999 to 2019,...
This paper empirically examines whether major domestic oil companies held down product prices relative to their less visible counterparts during the 1979 oil crisis. We compare company prices on unregulated fuel oil with a...
The last decade or so has witnessed the increasing application of computer and information technology to transportation infrastructure and vehicles. The resultant technical transport systems are called Intelligent...
The article discusses the use of a barter Edgeworth box in teaching students in economic classes about the connection between distributive efficiency and exchange.
Emily Marshall is a professor of Economics at Dickinson College., Despite decades of research exploring the relationship between the economy and crime, there is a lack of clarity in this literature. Questions remain,...
Through this thesis, I question what international and national agricultural research organizations gain from working together, and how such international development partnerships shape governance and autonomy among the local...
Ebru Kongar is a professor of Economics at Dickinson College., The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Economics presents a comprehensive overview of the contributions of feminist economics to the discipline of economics and...
For more information on the published version, visit Routledge's Website., Ebru Kongar is a professor of Economics at Dickinson College., From its self-identified inception with the formation of the International Association...
Guo, Hao, Chenxu Hu, and Xiaozhou Ding. Son Preference, Intrahousehold Discrimination, and the Gender Gap in Education in China. International Review of Economics and Finance 79 (2022): 324-339....
Economists have devoted much attention to understanding the effects of state–local fiscal policies, particularly taxes, on the growth of state-level employment. However, no one has investigated whether the effects differ by...
Cogliano, Jonathan F. Surplus Value Production and Realization in Marxian Theory – Applications to the U.S., 1990–2015. Review of Political Economy 30, no. 4 (2018): 505-533....
The authors describe an undergraduate economics elective focused on the Great Recession and the recession resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. They have taught the course with great success at both liberal arts colleges and...
In the past 50 years, a voluminous literature estimating the value of schools through capitalization in home prices has emerged. Prior research has identified capitalization using a variety of approaches including...
Common intellectual experiences (CIEs) are one of the lesser-known modalities that have been identified as a high impact practice (HIP) in higher education. This mixed-methods study assesses the outcomes of a short-term CIE,...
A former US Army Chief of Staff once observed, “If you don’t like change, you are going to like irrelevance even less.” These words are more relevant than ever as the United States and its military continue to deal with three...
Cogliano, Jonathan F., Peter Flaschel, Reiner Franke, Nils Fröhlich, and Roberto Veneziani, eds. Value, Competition and Exploitation: Marx's Legacy Revisited. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018., Jonathan Cogliano is...
In his provacatively titled piece We're all behavioral economists now, Erik Angner (2019) argues that, far from being peripheral to economics, behavioral economics is now a central part of the field with the result that we...
Emily Marshall is a professor of Economics at Dickinson College., For more information on the published version, visit Taylor and Francis's Website., Anthony Underwood is a professor of Economics at Dickinson College., The...
Paul Ko is a professor of Economics at Dickinson College. , Kirss, Alexander, Paul Ko, and Cleo O'Brien-Udry. '“Less Stress, More Confidence”: Supporting Junior Scholars Online at the Graduate Student International Political...