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Aging in style : does how we write matter?
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Kosnik, Lea-Rachel - 2022
The scholarly impact of academic research matters for academic promotions, influence, relevance to public policy, and others. Focusing on writing style in top-level professional journals, we examine how it changes with age, how stylistic differences and age affect impact, and how style and prior...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013460166
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Aging in Style : Does How We Write Matter?
Hamermesh, Daniel; Kosnik, Lea-Rachel - 2022
The scholarly impact of academic research matters for academic promotions, influence, relevance to public policy, and others. Focusing on writing style in top-level professional journals, we examine how it changes with age, how stylistic differences and age affect impact, and how style and prior...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014241683
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Male Gatekeepers Gender Bias in the Publishing Process?
Bransch, Felix - 2017
Using data on articles published in the top-five economic journals in the period 1991 to 2010, we explore whether the gender composition of editorial boards is related to the publishing success of female authors and to the quality of articles that get published. Our results show that female...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945221
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Publishing and promotion in economics : the tyranny of the top five
Heckman, James J.; Moktan, Sidharth - 2018
in academic economics departments. Analyzing the job histories of tenure-track economists hired by the top 35 U … tenure. A survey of the perceptions of young economists supports the formal statistical analysis. Pursuit of T5 publications … has become the obsession of the next generation of economists. However, the T5 screen is far from reliable. A substantial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011924952
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How Does the Market Use Citation Data? The Hirsch Index in Economics
Ellison, Glenn - 2010
tenured economists at 25 U.S. departments. Variants of Hirsch's index that emphasize smaller numbers of highly-cited papers … perform better than Hirsch's original index and have substantial power to explain which economists are tenured at which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137445
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Life Cycle and Cohort Productivity in Economic Research : The Case of Germany
Rauber, Michael - 2009
We examine the research productivity of German academic economists over their life cycles. It turns out that the career … life-cycles of younger German economists are hump-shaped and closely resemble the life cycles identified for U ….S. economists, whereas the life-cycles of older German economists are much flatter. Finally, we find that not only productivity, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012766974
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Catching Up or Falling Behind? Promising Changes and Persistent Patterns Across Cohorts of Economics PhDs in German-Speaking Countries from 1991 to 2008
Önder, Ali Sina - 2016
We investigate economics PhDs minted at German, Austrian, and Swiss universities from 1991 to 2008. We find that cohort sizes increased overall, and the share of PhDs who publish in a peer-reviewed journal within six years after graduation increased from 18% in 1991 to 46% in 2008. Publishing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990097
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Publishing and Promotion in Economics : The Tyranny of the Top Five
Heckman, James J. - 2018
in academic economics departments. Analyzing the job histories of tenure-track economists hired by the top 35 U … tenure. A survey of the perceptions of young economists supports the formal statistical analysis. Pursuit of T5 publications … has become the obsession of the next generation of economists. However, the T5 screen is far from reliable. A substantial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909184
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Publishing and Promotion in Economics : The Tyranny of the Top Five
Heckman, James J. - 2019
in academic economics departments. Analyzing the job histories of tenure-track economists hired by the top 35 U … tenure. A survey of the perceptions of young economists supports the formal statistical analysis. Pursuit of T5 publications … has become the obsession of the next generation of economists. However, the T5 screen is far from reliable. A substantial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012897974
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Risk-Taking in a Post-Pension Society : A Potential Mechanism for Generating Wealth Inequality in 401(k) Retirement Plans
Hayes, Adam - 2016
The introduction of direct contribution 401(k) retirement accounts in the late 1970's brought about an institutional … with retirement savings, which can impact financial well-being in older age. The role of investment uncertainty on … labor force, as well as for social security and retirement planning policy making …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982555