زبان سیاسی در اقتصاد
🔆Political Language in Economics
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✍🏻Zubin Jelveh (Maryland), Bruce Kogut (Columbia), Suresh Naidu (Columbia)

◾️This innovative study investigates how economists' political orientations are reflected in their academic writing. Using machine learning techniques, the authors analyze the relationship between economists' political behavior and the language used in their academic publications. The research demonstrates that political partisanship can be predicted from academic text with significant accuracy, revealing systematic patterns in how political ideology manifests in economic research.
The study reveals several key findings: economists tend to sort into different research fields based on their political leanings, and partisan differences are detectable even within fields studying the same theoretical parameters. Notably, the authors find that estimated policy-relevant parameters correlate with predicted partisanship. For instance, estimates of the taxable top income elasticity vary systematically with authors' political orientation, leading to different optimal tax rate recommendations – from 77% for left-leaning economists to 60% for right-leaning ones.

◾️ این مطالعه با استفاده از تکنیک‌های یادگیری ماشین نشان می‌دهد که جهت‌گیری سیاسی اقتصاددانان در نوشته‌های علمی آنها منعکس می‌شود. یافته‌های پژوهش حاکی از آن است که اقتصاددانان تمایل دارند حوزه‌های پژوهشی خود را بر اساس گرایش‌های سیاسی‌شان انتخاب کنند. مهم‌تر آنکه، این گرایش‌های سیاسی حتی بر تخمین پارامترهای سیاست‌گذاری نیز تأثیرگذار است.

🌐 https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueae026

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آیا اقتصاد رفتاری محکوم به شکست است؟
*🔆Is Behavioral Economics Doomed?*
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✍🏻David K. Levine (Royal Holloway University of London)

◾️In this comprehensive critique of behavioral economics, Levine examines the fundamental tension between rational choice theory and behavioral approaches in economics. The book systematically explores whether psychological explanations and behavioral theories truly address the limitations of traditional economic theory.

Starting with an evaluation of economic theory's empirical successes and failures, both in laboratory and real-world settings, Levine develops a rigorous framework for analyzing behavioral theories. He delves into crucial topics including rationality in decision-making, systematic biases, temporal choices, and decision-making under uncertainty. The analysis extends to learning processes and social interactions, culminating in a thoughtful examination of the intersection between psychology, neuroscience, and economics.

Throughout nine carefully structured chapters, Levine challenges popular assumptions about irrational behavior and psychological biases, offering a nuanced perspective on how human psychology influences economic decisions. The book concludes by examining the broader implications for the future of economic theory and its relationship with behavioral sciences.

🌐https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/77

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راهنمای طراحی پرسشنامه
🔆How to Run Surveys: A Guide to Creating Your Own#Paper

✍🏻Stefanie Stantcheva (Harvard University)

◾️The paper opens by highlighting the essential role of surveys in economic research:
"Surveys are an essential approach for eliciting otherwise invisible factors such as perceptions, knowledge and beliefs, attitudes, and reasoning. These factors are critical determinants of social, economic, and political outcomes. Surveys are not merely a research tool. They are also not only a way of collecting data. Instead, they involve creating the process that will generate the data. This allows the researcher to create their own identifying and controlled variation."

The article provides comprehensive guidance from survey design to data collection and analysis, covering issues related to the sampling process, selection and attrition, attention and carelessness, survey question design and measurement, response biases, and survey experiments.

🌐Link to paper

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علم داستان سرایی: ارائه علمی به سبک دیوید آتنبرو
?The science of storytelling: the David Attenborough style of scientific presentation
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✍?William C. Ratcliff

◾️Many scientists approach speaking as they do writing a paper: an opportunity to present their data. But data without proper context is difficult to absorb. In this article, I describe a philosophy and set of heuristics for giving an engaging, narratively driven talk, inspired by the legendary documentaries of Sir David Attenborough.

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