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We analyze the pay and position of 1,009 faculty members who teach in doctoral-granting economics departments at fifty …
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In this essay I review Sylvia Nasar's long awaited new history of economics, Grand Pursuit. I describe how the book is … an economic history of the period from 1850-1950, with distinguished economists' stories inserted in appropriate places …. Nasar's goal is to show how economists work, but also to show that they are people too – with more than enough warts and …
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possibly overlapping projects. We bring our model to the data by analyzing the coauthorship network of economists registered in … institutions and compare them with the economics funding program of the National Science Foundation. Our results indicate that …
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We explore the relationship between collaborations in writing papers and the academic productivity of economists and …, particularly, we describe the magnitude and intensity of co-authorship among economists. To that end, we employ interaction maps …-WOK, published by 5,188 economists from Spanish institutions, and their co-authors, up to 8,202 researchers, from 2002 to 2014, to …
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researchers in economics departments and business schools. Scholars may be unaware how many citizens and employees now take these …
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We examine the role of financial aid in shaping the formation of human capital in economics. Specifically, we study the … trajectories, and labor market outcomes of a generation of Italian economists with special focus on gender gaps and the role of …
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This paper looks at the evolution of incomes at the top of the distribution in Canada. Master files of the Canadian … groups driving the growth in top incomes in Canada. A finding more specific to Canada is that the oil and gas sector has also … revolution, scientists, engineers and even computer scientists do not account for much of the growth in top incomes in Canada …
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behavior in hiring. This paper analyzes the potential of this approach in a randomized experiment with fresh Ph.D. economists …
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This guide, updated for the 2011-12 job market season, describes the U. S. academic market for new Ph.D. economists and …
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We use data from the 2007-2008 Ph.D. economist job market to investigate initial job placement in terms of job location, job type, and job rank. Our results suggest gender differences in all three dimensions of job placement. Relative to their male counterparts, female candidates are less (more)...
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