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economics. We found that women in economics were 15% less likely to be promoted to associate professor after controlling for …
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economics journals, disaggregating by country/region, quality of journal, and fields of specialization. We document striking …
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Publishing in economics proceeds much more slowly on average than in the natural sciences, and more slowly than in … round of re-submission at the top economics journals is productive of additional subsequent citations; but conditional on re …
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Creation of empirical knowledge in economics has taken a dramatic turn in the past few decades. One feature of the new …
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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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in academic economics departments. Analyzing the job histories of tenure-track economists hired by the top 35 U ….S. economics departments, we find that T5 publications have a powerful influence on tenure decisions and rates of transition 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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In this paper we evaluate what economists have learned over the past 40 years about the determinants of crime. We base our evaluation on two kinds of evidence: an examination of aggregate data over long time periods and across countries, and a critical review of the literature. We argue that...
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impact on monetary economics of Laidler's work on the demand for money and the quantity theory of money; the transmission …
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