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top economics journal. This paper documents the slowdown and notes that a substantial part is due to an increasing … quality. Various time series are examined for evidence that the economics profession has changed along these dimensions. Paper … process. It is difficult to attribute much of the slowdown to observable changes in the economics profession. Evolving social …
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economics journals, disaggregating by country/region, quality of journal, and fields of specialization. We document striking …
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We study the role of gender in the evaluation of economic research using submissions to four leading journals. We find that referee gender has no effect on the relative assessment of female- versus male-authored papers, suggesting that any differential biases of male referees are negligible. To...
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We study how citation patterns differ between journal tiers in economics. Concretely, we analyze citations patterns of … more than 6,000 economics research articles published in top five, second tier, and top field economics journals between … field of economics research (e.g. this ratio is the lowest for econometric methods papers) and with articles' impact (e …
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A large literature following Hirsch (2005) has proposed citation-based indexes that could be used to rank academics. This paper examines how well several such indexes match labor market outcomes using data on the citation records of young tenured economists at 25 U.S. departments. Variants of...
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submissions to the Journal of International Economics to help answer these questions …
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This examination of the role and potential for replication in economics points out the paucity of both pure replication … populations in one's own work or in a Comment. Several controversies in empirical economics illustrate how and how not to behave …
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We compile the list of articles published in major refereed economics journals during the last 35 years that have …
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Discrimination is notoriously difficult to document. Convincing tests for discrimination require good measures of the legitimate determinants of the outcome of interest, for example wages and productivity. While few contexts provide data adequate to the task of measuring discrimination, copious...
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-authored than articles published in leading general economics journals. However, in both economic history and general economics …-authored papers. Economics and economic history differ in the nature of collaboration, in that co-authorships in economic history are … more likely to be formed of individuals of different seniority as compared to economics generally …
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