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Data2X, WomanStats, and Inclusive Security are just a few of the many organizations that have made it their mission to gather in global databases this kind of gender-differentiated data and research, providing irrefutable and empirical proof that women’s status is inextricably linked to state power, stability, corruption, prosperity, and many other indicators.
I was of course familiar with Piketty’s empirical work on income distribution, carried out jointly with Emmanuel Saez, Anthony Atkinson, and others.
But the book goes far beyond the empirical work, and narrates an intriguing cautionary tale about the dynamics of wealth under capitalism.
It has brought to public debate crucial empirical detail and a simple but useful analytical framework.
Much theoretical and empirical research demonstrates that opening trade can spur a country’s GDP growth.
The empirical evidence suggests that tax cuts are more likely than spending increases to spur growth, and that lower spending is more likely than tax hikes to consolidate budgets effectively.
The Price of Oil in 2015LONDON – In late 1979, I began work on my PhD thesis, an empirical investigation of the OPEC surplus and its disposal.
There is simply no theoretical or empirical basis for this, especially in countries like the US, where most investment (at the margin) is financed by debt and interest is tax deductible.
But, given thin empirical evidence and legitimate concerns about undermining trust in the effectiveness of government, and with so many options for the productive use of resources, this seems like a titanic ideological distraction.
In fact, empirical data suggest the significance of this danger.
Even in areas where the empirical record appears clear, closer analysis reveals major flaws.
Economists who become policy advisors are great fans of simplicity, uniformity, and arm's-length relations between government and the private sector, not because of economic theory or empirical evidence, but because of unexamined and untested assumptions.
So far, there is no hard empirical evidence that that is the case.
They have defended their empirical methods and insist that they are not the deficit hawks that their critics portray them to be.
Second, empirical evidence is rarely reliable enough to settle decisively a controversy characterized by deeply divided opinion.
But even in microeconomics, where it is sometimes possible to generate precise empirical estimates using randomization techniques, the results must be extrapolated in order to be applied in other settings.
So, too, on the other side, did Hans van Delden, a Dutch nursing home physician and bioethicist who for the past 20 years has been involved in all of the major empirical studies of end-of-life decisions in his country.
In this dispute, Smith comes down firmly on the side of van Delden and Battin, finding that “the empirical evidence gathered in the two jurisdictions does not support the hypothesis that physician-assisted death has imposed a particular risk to socially vulnerable populations.”
Indeed, empirical research has shown that, throughout history, as far back as the Standard Oil case in the early 20th century, most instances of alleged “predatory pricing” have in fact been cases of superior efficiency.
They made decisions on the basis of relevant normative and empirical factors.
But as empirical research prepared by the CEC5 National Banks estimates, its contribution to total price growth in the candidate countries is 1-2%.
But there is no empirical or theoretical evidence to support this claim.
While accepting the need for accountability, our best theory and empirical evidence must be used to guide practice.
As a rough empirical characterization of stylized facts, it was received somewhat skeptically by the academic community, and both authors were known for much more noted contributions.
Recent empirical work by three academic economists – David Autor (MIT), David Dorn (University of Zurich), and Gordon Hanson (UC-San Diego) – shows that the critics have a point (and then some).
In light of the new empirical findings, such nonchalance toward trade has become untenable.
After all, the social sciences historically offered empirical support and spiritual hope for just such reforms, which are increasingly dismissed as "utopian."
But empirical support for the benefits of capital-account liberalization is weak.
Empirical falsification of a prevailing orthodoxy is disturbing.
It should start from the empirical observation that no economy has grown on a sustained basis without relying on markets and free exchange.
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