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Demographic Diversity and Economic Research : Fields of Specialization and Research on Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality

Antman, Francisca M.; Doran, Kirk B.; Qian, Xuechao; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Using dissertation research topics found in the EconLit database and large-scale algorithmic methods that identify author demographics based on names, we explore the link between race and ethnicity and fields of economic research. We find that underrepresented racial and ethnic minority (URM)...

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When is Sovereign Debt Odious? A Theory of Government Repression, Growth Traps, and Growth Boosts

Acharya, Viral V.; Rajan, Raghuram Govind; Shim, Jack - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We examine the dynamics of a country's growth, consumption, and sovereign debt, assuming that the government is myopic and wants to maximize short-term, self-interested spending. Surprisingly, government myopia can increase a country's access to external borrowing. In turn, access to borrowing...

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Tools or Toys? The Impact of High Technology on Scholarly Productivity

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1998

Toys. The impact of computers on productivity has been examined directly on macro data and indirectly (on wages) using microeconomic data. This study examines the direct impact on the productivity of scholarship by considering how high technology might alter patterns of coauthoring of articles...

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Women Helping Women? Role-Model and Mentoring Effects on Female Ph.D. Student in Economics

Neumark, David - 1996

One potential method to increase the success of female graduate students in economics may be to encourage mentoring relationships between these students and female faculty members. Increased hiring of female faculty is viewed as one way to promote such mentoring relationships, perhaps because of...

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A Citation-Based Test for Discrimination at Economics and Finance Journals

Smart, Scott - 1996

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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Aging and Productivity, Rationality and Matching : Evidence from Economists

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1994

Economists' productivity, as measured by publication in leading journals, declines very sharply with age. Additional …

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Defining a Unitary Business : An Economist's View

McLure, Charles E, Jr - 1983

The definition of a unitary business has figured prominently in several recent decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court on the constitutionality of state corporate income taxes. This paper employs economic analysis to frame a three part test of whether a unitary business exists. Underlying the tests...

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Are Referees and Editors in Economics Gender Neutral?

Card, David - 2019

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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Economists (and Economics) in Tech Companies

Athey, Susan - 2018

As technology platforms have created new markets and new ways of acquiring information, economists have come to play an … past five years, hundreds of PhD economists have accepted positions in the technology sector. In this paper, we explore the … skills that PhD economists apply in tech companies, the companies that hire them, the types of problems that economists are …

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Fifty Shades of QE : Conflicts of Interest in Economic Research

Fabo, Brian - 2020

research findings of central bank researchers and academic economists regarding the macroeconomic effects of quantitative …

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