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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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The move from traditional to open-access journals--which charge no subscription fees, only submission fees--is gaining support in academia. We analyze a two-sided-market model in which journals cannot commit to subscription fees when authors (who prefer low subscription fees because this boosts...
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The ranking of scientific journals is important because of the signal it sends to scientists about what is considered most vital for scientific progress. Existing ranking systems focus on measuring the influence of a scientific paper (citations)--these rankings do not reward journals for...
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How has publishing in top economics journals changed since 1970? Using a data set that combines information on all … has remained relatively stable, with the notable exception of the Quarterly Journal of Economics, which climbed from …
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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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crops of 1.6 million parcels of land in 55 countries around the world. Crucially, this dataset contains information about … output predicted by Ricardo's theory of comparative advantage. Despite all of the real-world considerations from which this …
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development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we … and poverty alleviation. We find that financial development reduces income inequality by disproportionately boosting the … poverty and income inequality. These results are robust to controlling for other country characteristics and potential reverse …
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of poverty. In this paper, we discuss the framework used in economics to model parental investments and early childhood …
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