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We identify three separate stages in the post-World War II history of applied microeconomic research: A generally non-mathematical period; a period of consensus (from the 1960s through the early 1990s) characterized by the use of mathematical models, optimization and equilibrium to generate 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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in academic economics departments. Analyzing the job histories of tenure-track economists hired by the top 35 U ….S. economics departments, we find that T5 publications have a powerful influence on tenure decisions and rates of transition to …
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a multi-purpose publication with highly disparate content. Over time the economics profession expanded and more … economics research was produced, primarily in the form of journal articles. The AER accommodated this shift by allocating more …
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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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In this essay I review Sylvia Nasar's long awaited new history of economics, Grand Pursuit. I describe how the book is … and foibles to show they are human! I contrast the general view of the role of economics in Grand Pursuit with Robert …
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Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT have the potential to revolutionize research in economics and other …
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This article presents a comprehensive analysis of trends in the publication and citation of economics scholarly … research, with a focus on specialization within fields of economics research (i.e., applied, applied theory, econometrics … research economics journals. We then used state-of-the-art machine learning and natural language processing techniques to …
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In this paper I analyze the work on exchange rates and external imbalances by University of Chicago faculty members during the university's first hundred years, 1892-1992. Many people associate Chicago's views with Milton Friedman's advocacy for flexible exchange rates. But, of course, there was...
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