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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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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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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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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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Presenting data on all full-length articles published in the three top general economics journals for one year in each …
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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 … and foibles to show they are human! I contrast the general view of the role of economics in Grand Pursuit with Robert …
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