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The Slowdown of the Economics Publishing Process
Ellison, Glenn - 2000
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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How Does the Market Use Citation Data? The Hirsch Index in Economics
Ellison, Glenn - 2010
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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Inside Job or Deep Impact? Using Extramural Citations to Assess Economic Scholarship
Angrist, Joshua - 2017
clients and peers? Is economics scholarship uniquely insular? We address these questions by quantifying interactions between … economics and other disciplines. Changes in the impact of economic scholarship are measured here by the way other disciplines … cite us. We document a clear rise in the extramural influence of economic research, while also showing that economics is …
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Undergraduate Econometrics Instruction : Through Our Classes, Darkly
Angrist, Joshua D. - 2017
The past half-century has seen economic research become increasingly empirical, while the nature of empirical economic research has also changed. In the 1960s and 1970s, an empirical economist's typical mission was to "explain" economic variables like wages or GDP growth. Applied econometrics...
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Introduction
Angrist, Joshua D.; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - Princeton University Press
Applied econometrics, known to aficionados as 'metrics, is the original data science. 'Metrics encompasses the statistical methods economists use to untangle cause and effect in human affairs. Through accessible discussion and with a dose of kung fu–themed humor, Mastering 'Metrics presents...
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Randomized Trials
Angrist, Joshua D.; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - Princeton University Press
Applied econometrics, known to aficionados as 'metrics, is the original data science. 'Metrics encompasses the statistical methods economists use to untangle cause and effect in human affairs. Through accessible discussion and with a dose of kung fu–themed humor, Mastering 'Metrics presents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011093932
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Mastering ’Metrics: The Path from Cause to Effect
Angrist, Joshua D.; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - Princeton University Press
Applied econometrics, known to aficionados as 'metrics, is the original data science. 'Metrics encompasses the statistical methods economists use to untangle cause and effect in human affairs. Through accessible discussion and with a dose of kung fu–themed humor, Mastering 'Metrics presents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011093946