Search Results
Journal Article
Research and policy
Journal Article
Supply, demand and deadline!
The SD&D workshop aims to improve economic reporting by providing the basics and an innovative, high-pressure test run.
Working Paper
Gender ratios at top PhD programs in economics
Analyzing university faculty and graduate student data for the top-ten U.S. economics departments between 1987 and 2007, we find that there are persistent differences in gender composition for both faculty and graduate students across institutions and that the share of female faculty and the share of women in the entering PhD class are positively correlated. We find, using instrumental variables analysis, robust evidence that this correlation is driven by the causal effect of the female faculty share on the gender composition of the entering PhD class. This result provides an explanation for ...
Journal Article
Adjustment for seasonal variation
Journal Article
The state of modern economics : Economist, study thyself
The way economists are trained has come a long way in the past 20 years. Has it come far enough?
Journal Article
Toward understanding of the whole developing economic situation
Journal Article
Knowledge is power: the importance of economic education
As technological advances continue to expand the range of financial services available to consumers, money management becomes increasingly complicated. Helping consumers navigate this sea of financial products is important. When households are capable of building wealth, they are also capable of building more economically stable neighborhoods and communities. That's one reason economic education is vital to the future health of our nation's economy. In "Knowledge Is Power: The Importance of Economic Education" President Anthony Santomero outlines what the Federal Reserve is doing to ...
