Ben's Research
Ben Smith of the University
of Nebraska at Omaha
of Nebraska at Omaha
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Pundits — The Confidence Trick: Better Confident than Right?
Simulating Confidence for the Ellison-Glaeser Index
Low-cost, Transportable Hydrogen Fueling Station for Early Market Adoption of Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles
A Practitioner's Guide to Testing Regional Industrial Localization
Bazinganomics: Economics of The Big Bang Theory
Giving Away the Store: How the zero price constraint results in fewer add-on features
Short vs. Long: Cognitive Load, Retention and Changing Class Structures
We Nudge and You Can Too! Informing students of grade outcomes by e-mail or at the bottom of each assignment
Network Externalities and Friendly Neighbors: When Firms Choose to Invite Competition
Adjusting for Guessing and Applying a Statistical Test to the Disaggregation of Value-added Learning Scores
A Path To Consumer Surplus & Loyalty: How Path Dependent Products Result in Lower Prices and
Order-Dependent Consumer Loyalty
Estimating Consumer Demand for Information Attributes Using Twitter Data
Create Random Assignments
A tool to generate homeworks unique to each student.
Create Group Projects
Tool to generate group project work spaces for each team in a class.
Remove Permissions
Removes all permissions (except your own) on every file and folder that you own within the selected Google Drive folder.
Assessment Disaggregation
A tool to disaggregate pre- and post-test responses into value-added learning scores and adjust them for guessing.
Introduction to SQL
Handout explaining the basics of the SQL language (intended for data scientists)
Python for Economists
Four period class teaching Python programming from computer fundamentals to SciPy
Time.txt
Time.txt allows you to track and analyze your time (sheets) using plain text files.
Depreciation for Ledger
This tool allows you to create a depreciation schedule appropriate for Ledger.
Ledger Scheduler
This application moves transactions from a scheduled transaction file to a main Ledger file.