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How Should We Deal with Homework Questions?
Perhaps to a lesser degree than STEM fields, the academic study of economics- especially at an undergraduate level- consists of a lot of problem sets and papers (a.k.a., "homework"). Students will ...
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Economics.SE Policy on Homework Questions
The explicit aim of this site is to create a stack of high quality economics related questions and answers. High quality questions are those that, along with their answers, are useful to future ...
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Is this site only for "expert-level questions"?
In this question, a close-vote was justified as follows:
The question is too broad. But, more importantly, it is not at all an
expert-level question, to the degree that intermediate undergraduate
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Everybody is asking you to vote - Economics.se is no different
Here are some data from site analytics, regarding the last twelve months:
Traffic holds and has recently picked up strongly to historic highs:
...but voting exhibits a clear downward trend ...
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We need more PHDs/Professionals on this site/why are we not getting them
I dont know if this is a rant so please downvote/vote to close if need be.
This week I actively approached a couple of professors and working economists I know and told them about the site. Most of ...
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An alternative suggestion regarding Homework Questions
We want to have general reusable questions. Yet, most of the undergraduate questions are terribly local and of no use what-so-ever for future visitors.
Here's a suggestion:
How about forbidding ...
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How technical must the questions be?
I'm not quite clear on this line from the "How to Ask in the Private Beta" page:
Stick to actual, real, objective questions with concrete answers that a working professional or expert in this field ...
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Removing the beta label from Economics.SE
We have been a beta site for 2031 days, just over 5.5 years at this point. Taking a look at our recent statistics:
The criteria regarding questions per day has been fairly healthy, even with some ...
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Welcome to Economics.SE!
Welcome to Economics.SE, the free, community-driven, Questions and Answers site for economists.
This site is for Questions and answers and is not a forum. This means that there is a quite strict ...
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We're Graduating out of Beta Status!
We're coming up on the 7th anniversary of our fledgling site being in beta status. As of this post, we've been around for 2553 days. Phew!
It is our pleasure to report from the moderator team that we ...
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What do experts expect to get out of this SE site?
We've had a few meta questions where discussions focus on attracting (and presumably keeping) experts on this site.
I'd be interested to know what other experts and professionals hope to gain by ...
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Thanks for visiting - can you please also vote on the main site?
With four-thousands-rep delay I was granted access to "Site Analytics" (I am joking -most probably they weren't previously available for a nascent site like ours).
And they provide some raw data. What ...
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Moderators Pro Tem announcement
Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community ...
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Who are PhDs and PhD candidates on this site?
just wondering who are Econ Phds or Econ PhD students on the site. Obviously knowing anyone can claim anything. I just want to know if anyone here is an Econ PhD or Econ PhD student can you post below ...
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Are software questions on-topic?
There are programs like Dynare which are used mostly by economists and answering questions about which may require knowledge of economics.
Then there are programs like Stata and Matlab which are ...
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