Other Prominent Female Economists

Charity and Favoritism in the Field: Are Female Economists Nicer (To Each Other)?

Charity and Favoritism in the Field: Are Female Economists Nicer (To Each Other)? Using a very large sample of matched author-referee pairs, we examine how the gender of referees and authors affects the former’s recommendations. Relying on changing matches of authors and referees, we find no evidence of gender differences among referees in charitableness toward authors; nor do we find any effec...

The Methodology of Economists

Thirty-five years ago, E. C. Harwood, AIER's founder, wrote the following about the relation of economic conclusions to the methods of inquiry used by many economists: "That economists frequently do not agree has become so commonplace that some economists no longer seem to be troubled by the suggestion that such a state of affairs is scandalous. That many economists do agree on certain analyses...

The Games Economists Play

It is a source of confusion that economists for decades have worked on ‘game theory’ while studying economic behaviour. However, while not focused on games in the recreational sense this perspective does provide a highly meticulous complementary framework for the understanding of computer game structure and player behaviour. This article attempts to extract useful analytic concepts and insights...

Do Economists Lie More?

Recent experimental evidence suggests that some people dislike telling lies, and tell the truth even at a cost. We use experiments as well to study the socio-demographic covariates of such lie aversion, and find gender and religiosity to be without predictive value. However, subjects’ major is predictive: Business and Economics (B&E) subjects are significantly less lie averse than other majors....

Preventing Economists’ Capture