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🚀 R: Check if an object is of type POSIXct or POSIXlt - Snippet #101
Discover how to check if an object is of type POSIXct or POSIXlt with R
Olivier Simard-Casanova
French Organizational Economist
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🚀 R: Check if an object is of type date - Snippet #100
Discover how to check if an object is of type date with R
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🚀 R: Check if an object is of type data frame - Snippet #99
Discover how to check if an object is of type data frame with R
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🚀 R: Check if an object is of type character - Snippet #98
Discover how to check if an object is of type character with R
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🚀 R: Check for multiple conditions at the same time - Snippet #97
Discover how to check for multiple conditions at the same time with R
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🚀 R: Check if a value is equal to another value – Snippet #96
Discover how to check if a value is equal to another value with R
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🚀 R: Check if a value is smaller than another value – Snippet #95
Discover how to check if a value is smaller than another value with R
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🚀 R: Check if a value is larger than another value – Snippet #94
Discover how to check if a value is larger than another value with R
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🚀 R: Types an object can take - Snippet #93
Discover types an object can take in R
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Where to find, and to publish, short economics papers?
Economics papers tend to be long. Too long, if you are asking me. If you are interested in publishing a short economics paper, or if you are interested in finding short economics papers, David Evans has compiled a comprehensive list of journals that accept short economics papers. A very useful
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The slow approval of interracial marriages in the United States
Via Paul Krugman on Threads, I discover this plot. Based on a series of Gallup polls, the plot shows the proportion of adults who say they “approve” interracial marriages between Black people and White people in the United States. In 1958, only 4% of the population approved of interracial marriages.
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A surprising result on the differences in competitive behavior between women and men
A vast literature in economics shows that men are on average more competitive than women. The dominant explanation for this difference is a tendency for men to be overconfident in their abilities. A working paper by Tünde Lénárd, Dániel Horn and Hubert János Kiss challenges this explanation. 🧭Trust indicator • Reading