Brandon Dupont
Western Washington University
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Contemporary Economic Policy | 2009
Ronald A. Ash; LeAnne Coder; Brandon Dupont; Joshua L. Rosenbloom
This article describes the results of a survey of professional workers that was designed to explore the underlying reasons for the widely documented under representation of women in information technology jobs. Our analysis suggests that it is different occupational personalities between men and women rather than the demanding nature of IT work that is largely responsible for the relatively few women in IT occupations. We discuss the implications these results have for policies that are designed to create greater gender equity in the rapidly-growing IT industries.
Communications of The ACM | 2009
LeAnne Coder; Joshua L. Rosenbloom; Ronald A. Ash; Brandon Dupont
Want to increase participation of women in IT work? Change the work.
The Economic History Review | 2012
Brandon Dupont; Alka Gandhi; Thomas Weiss
How and when did the ‘great tourist invasion of Europe’ come about? Although a few writers have tried to characterize the rise in travel, their descriptions are almost exclusively narrative with colourful opinions and very little quantitative evidence. This is our attempt to fill in the gap. We have linked together several series on overseas travel in order to produce a consistent long‐term series covering the period 1820 to 2000, and have also constructed a new time series on passenger fares for much of the period in which ocean travel was the means of going abroad. We use these new data, along with other evidence on GDP per capita, air fares, exchange rates, and indexes of technological change in the travel industry, in an attempt to explain the long‐term rise in overseas travel.
Applied Economics | 2007
Kyongwook Choi; Brandon Dupont
This article draws on a variety of time series tools to more deeply explore issues surrounding the emergence of a national capital market in the late 19th century. Our focus is on the timing of the emergence of a national capital market. Rather than relying on the absolute narrowing of regional interest rate differentials, which is a common approach in this literature, we use Gregory and Hansen cointegration tests, which allow us not only to test for cointegrating relations in the interest rate series but to identify unknown structural change dates as a byproduct. We also use dynamic conditional correlations to determine the dates at which regional interest rate correlations began increasing. Our results suggest that structural changes are centred around the year 1900, which is consistent with Syllas argument that the lowering of capital requirements by the Gold Standard Act of 1900 increased bank entry and competition and facilitated regional capital market convergence.
Journal of Economic Education | 2018
Brandon Dupont; Yvonne Durham
ABSTRACT The authors describe how the Monty Hall Dilemma, a well-known choice anomaly, can be demonstrated with a simple and versatile classroom experiment. In addition to demonstrating the anomaly, the experiment can be used to introduce students to some institutional modifications that have been shown to ameliorate it. This experiment, which can be tailored by instructors to meet specific learning objectives for a variety of courses, can also be used to frame broader discussions about rationality, institutions, and choices under uncertainty.
National Bureau of Economic Research | 2016
Brandon Dupont; Drew Keeling; Thomas Weiss
We present a continuous time series on first cabin passenger fares for ocean travel from New York to the British Isles covering nearly a century of time. We discuss the conceptual and empirical difficulties of constructing such a time series, and examine the reasons for differences between the behavior of advertised fares and those based on passenger revenues. We find that while there are conceptual differences between these two measurements, as well as differences in the average values, the two generally moved in parallel, which means that the advertised fare series can serve as a reasonable proxy for movement of the revenue-based fares. We also find that advertised fares declined over time, roughly paralleling the drop in freight rates for U.S. bulk exports, until around 1890, but thereafter increased while freight rates continued to decline. We propose several hypotheses for this divergent behavior and suggest lines of future research.
Journal of Economic Education | 2014
Brandon Dupont
Adam Smiths moral philosophy can be used to introduce economics students to the important idea of transactions costs. The author provides a brief background in this article to Smiths moral philosophy and connects it to the costs of transacting in a way that fits easily into the standard principles of microeconomics classroom. By doing so, instructors can also demonstrate to students that there are connections between ethical behavior and market outcomes.
Journal of Economic Psychology | 2008
Joshua L. Rosenbloom; Ronald A. Ash; Brandon Dupont; LeAnne Coder
Explorations in Economic History | 2007
Brandon Dupont
Cliometrica | 2009
Brandon Dupont