researchers make higher education more costly for low-ability students than do non-research faculty, achieving the separation more …Higher education institutions and disciplines that traditionally did little research now reward faculty largely based … harms students' human capital accumulation. The economics literature has largely ignored the reasons for and desirability of …

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 … may be for female graduate students to have female faculty serve as dissertation chairs. The evidence in this paper …

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

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 …

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