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The Color of Ideas : Racial Dynamics and Citations in Economics

Koffi, Marlène; Pongou, Roland; Wantchekon, Leonard - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

manually collected data from the CVs of thousands of economists, we document that papers authored by non-White scholars (Black …

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Dissertation Paths : Advisors and Students in the Economics Research Production Function

Angrist, Joshua D.; Diederichs, Marc - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Elite economics PhD programs aim to train graduate students for a lifetime of academic research. This paper asks how advising affects graduate students' post-PhD research productivity. Advising is highly concentrated: at the eight highly-selective schools in our study, a minority of advisors do...

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Gender Differences in Peer Recognition by Economists

Card, David E.; Della Vigna, Stefano; Funk, Patricia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

over 40,000 actively publishing economists since the early 1900s. Conditional on achievement, we document a large negative … elect candidates from outside the US. Finally, we examine gender gaps in several other major awards for US economists. We …

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Does Mentoring Increase the Collaboration Networks of Female Economists? An Evaluation of the CeMENT Randomized Trial

Ginther, Donna K.; Na, Rina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Previous research has shown that women in the treatment group of the CeMENT randomized controlled trial increased their publications and the likelihood that they were tenured in top 50 economics departments. This paper examines one potential mechanism, namely, that CeMENT expanded the...

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Women in Academic Economics : Have We Made Progress?

Ginther, Donna K.; Kahn, Shulamit Beth - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This study uses data from Academic Analytics to examine gender differences in promotion to associate professor in economics. We found that women in economics were 15% less likely to be promoted to associate professor after controlling for cumulative publications, citations, grants and grant...

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O.M.W. Sprague (the Man Who "Wrote the Book" on Financial Crises) meets the Great Depression

Rockoff, Hugh - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

When the Great Depression struck the United States, Oliver M.W. Sprague was America's foremost expert on financial crises. His History of Crises under the National Banking System is a frequently cited classic. Had he diagnosed a banking panic and called for an aggressive response by the Federal...

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Using Digitized Newspapers to Refine Historical Measures : The Case of the Boll Weevil

Ferrara, Andreas; Ha, Joung Yeob; Walsh, Randall P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper shows how to remove attenuation bias in regression analyses due to measurement error in historical data for a given variable of interest by using a secondary measure which can be easily generated from digitized newspapers. We provide three methods for using this secondary variable to...

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Same As it Ever Was : Gender, Race, and Ethnicity Differences in Promotion for Academic Economists

Ginther, Donna K.; Kahn, Shulamit Beth; Milakhina, Daria - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

examine gender and racial/ethnicity differentials in promotion of economists in economics and non-economics departments …. Results are mixed. The share of Black economists remains at 3%. Huge gender penalties in promotion to both associate and full … for economists in non-economics departments, although some in promotion to full. There are hardly any significant racial …

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Gender Gaps at the Academies

Card, David E.; Della Vigna, Stefano; Funk, Patricia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Historically, a large majority of the newly elected members of the National Academy of Science (NAS) and the American Academy of Arts and Science (AAAS) were men. Within the past two decades, however, that situation has changed, and in the last 3 years women made up about 40 percent of the new...

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The People and the Experts

Nordhaus, William D.; Rivers, Douglas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Are speculators driving up oil prices? Should we raise energy prices to slow global warming? The present study takes a small number of such questions and compares the views of economic experts with those of the public. This comparison uses a panel of more than 2000 respondents from YouGov with...

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