This paper analyzes the early research performance of PhD graduates in labor economics, addressing the following … relevant is the quality of the training received (i.e. ranking of institution and supervisor) and the research environment in … received their degree in the years 2000 to 2005 in Europe or the USA. Research productivity is evaluated alternatively as the …

Over the last decades, empirical research on subjective well-being in the social sciences has provided a major new … stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported … of where the economic research on happiness stands and of three directions it might develop. First, it offers new ways …

Given the recent efforts in several countries to reorganize the research institutional setting to improve research … standards in economics around the world been reflected in research performance? How have individual countries fared? Do research … of research in economics. Our findings indicate that Europe is catching up with the US but, in terms of influential …

impact from responses to a survey in which visitors described their research before and after their visit and designated as a … scholarly research on local issues. Using the list of visitors to the ANU Research School’s Economics Program, I estimate this …. The results show a highly significant ceteris paribus impact of such visits on the visitor’s subsequent research. Valuing …

institutional and national borders. To undertake the research, the authors match an explicit measure of institutional IT adoption …