United States economics profession
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The United States economics profession is the community of academic and professional economists in the U.S. whose research, teaching, and policy work shape economic theory, empirical methods, and public economic policy.
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| United States economics profession canonical | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States economics profession Context triple: [Henry Schultz, areaOfInfluence, United States economics profession]
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Office of the Chief Economist
The Office of the Chief Economist is a policy and analysis unit within the U.S. Department of Agriculture that provides economic advice, forecasts, and research to inform national agricultural and food policy decisions.
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Office of Economic Research
The Office of Economic Research is a unit that conducts economic analysis and research to support the regulatory and policy work of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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C.
National Bureau of Economic Research
The National Bureau of Economic Research is a leading American nonprofit research organization best known for its influential economic studies and for officially determining U.S. business cycle dates.
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Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a prestigious endowed chair in MIT’s economics department held by leading scholar Daron Acemoglu.
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Economic Sciences
Economic Sciences is the academic discipline that studies how individuals, businesses, governments, and societies allocate scarce resources and make decisions about production, distribution, and consumption.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States economics profession Target entity description: The United States economics profession is the community of academic and professional economists in the U.S. whose research, teaching, and policy work shape economic theory, empirical methods, and public economic policy.
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A.
Office of the Chief Economist
The Office of the Chief Economist is a policy and analysis unit within the U.S. Department of Agriculture that provides economic advice, forecasts, and research to inform national agricultural and food policy decisions.
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B.
Office of Economic Research
The Office of Economic Research is a unit that conducts economic analysis and research to support the regulatory and policy work of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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C.
National Bureau of Economic Research
The National Bureau of Economic Research is a leading American nonprofit research organization best known for its influential economic studies and for officially determining U.S. business cycle dates.
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D.
Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a prestigious endowed chair in MIT’s economics department held by leading scholar Daron Acemoglu.
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E.
Economic Sciences
Economic Sciences is the academic discipline that studies how individuals, businesses, governments, and societies allocate scarce resources and make decisions about production, distribution, and consumption.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (105)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic profession
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epistemic community ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| evaluationMetric |
citation counts
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grant funding ⓘ journal rankings ⓘ peer-reviewed publications ⓘ policy impact ⓘ |
| field | economics ⓘ |
| historicalInfluence |
Chicago School economics
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surface form:
Chicago school of economics
Keynesian economics ⓘ behavioral economics movement ⓘ game theory ⓘ monetarism ⓘ new Keynesian economics ⓘ new classical macroeconomics ⓘ public choice theory ⓘ rational expectations revolution ⓘ |
| includes |
academic economists
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economic consultants ⓘ government economists ⓘ policy economists ⓘ private sector economists ⓘ think tank economists ⓘ |
| influences |
United States economic policy
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fiscal policy in the United States ⓘ international economic policy of the United States ⓘ monetary policy in the United States ⓘ regulatory policy in the United States ⓘ |
| keyInstitution |
Brookings Institution
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Department of Economics, Columbia University ⓘ
surface form:
Columbia University Department of Economics
Council of Economic Advisers ⓘ Federal Reserve System ⓘ Department of Economics, Harvard University ⓘ
surface form:
Harvard University Department of Economics
Hoover Institution ⓘ International Monetary Fund ⓘ
surface form:
International Monetary Fund (U.S.-based staff and researchers)
MIT Department of Economics ⓘ
surface form:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Economics
National Bureau of Economic Research ⓘ Department of Economics, New York University ⓘ
surface form:
New York University Department of Economics
Department of Economics at Northwestern University ⓘ
surface form:
Northwestern University Department of Economics
Peterson Institute for International Economics ⓘ Princeton University Department of Economics ⓘ RAND Corporation ⓘ Stanford University Department of Economics ⓘ United States Department of the Treasury ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Department of the Treasury
Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley ⓘ
surface form:
University of California, Berkeley Department of Economics
University of Chicago Department of Economics ⓘ University of Michigan Department of Economics ⓘ University of Pennsylvania Department of Economics ⓘ Urban Institute ⓘ World Bank ⓘ
surface form:
World Bank (U.S.-based staff and researchers)
Yale University Department of Economics ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainDiscipline | neoclassical economics ⓘ |
| majorAssociation |
American Economic Association
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American Finance Association ⓘ American Statistical Association ⓘ Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management ⓘ Econometric Society ⓘ National Bureau of Economic Research ⓘ Society for Economic Dynamics ⓘ |
| majorAward |
AEA Distinguished Fellow
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Fisher–Schultz Lecture ⓘ Frisch Medal ⓘ John Bates Clark Medal ⓘ Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences ⓘ |
| majorJournal |
American Economic Review
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Econometrica ⓘ Journal of Econometrics ⓘ Journal of Economic Perspectives ⓘ Journal of Political Economy ⓘ Quarterly Journal of Economics ⓘ Review of Economic Studies ⓘ |
| output |
economic policy analysis
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economic research ⓘ graduate training in economics ⓘ university teaching ⓘ |
| subfield |
agricultural economics
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behavioral economics ⓘ development economics ⓘ econometrics ⓘ economic history ⓘ education economics ⓘ environmental economics ⓘ experimental economics ⓘ financial economics ⓘ health economics ⓘ industrial organization ⓘ international economics ⓘ labor economics ⓘ macroeconomics ⓘ microeconomics ⓘ public economics ⓘ urban economics ⓘ |
| trainingPath |
MA in economics
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PhD in economics ⓘ public policy graduate programs ⓘ |
| usesMethod |
big data analysis
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computable general equilibrium modeling ⓘ econometric analysis ⓘ natural experiments ⓘ randomized controlled trials ⓘ structural estimation ⓘ survey data analysis ⓘ theoretical modeling ⓘ |
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