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economics journals, disaggregating by country/region, quality of journal, and fields of specialization. We document striking … increase in the relative supply of research in the rest of the world. But they also indicate authors from developing countries …
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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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economics, with Marshall's encouragement. But in later life, Marshall opposed granting Cambridge degrees to women and their … participation in academic economics. This paper recounts Alfred Marshall's use of gender norms, born out of a separate spheres … ideology, to promote and ingrain women's exclusion in academic economics and beyond. We demonstrate the persistence of this …
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Milton Friedman's famous 1953 essay, "The case for flexible exchange rates," deals entirely with advanced nations. An interesting question is what Friedman thought about exchange rate and monetary regimes in emerging economies. In this paper I investigate how his views on the subject evolved...
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attention in the economics literature. In this paper, we present a simple model which predicts the core symptoms of depression …
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This paper examines the influence of Irving Fisher's writings on Milton Friedman's work in monetary economics. We focus … building blocks for later students of monetary economics. Thus, the Chicago School of the 1930s absorbed Fisher's approach, and …
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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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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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