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Elite economics PhD programs aim to train graduate students for a lifetime of academic research. This paper asks how …
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Presenting data on all full-length articles published in the three top general economics journals for one year in each … fewer papers that represent pure theory, regardless of sub-field, somewhat less empirical work based on publicly available …
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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 … really an economic history of the period from 1850-1950, with distinguished economists' stories inserted in appropriate … places. Nasar's goal is to show how economists work, but also to show that they are people too--with more than enough warts …
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This paper examines the influence of Irving Fisher's writings on Milton Friedman's work in monetary economics. We focus … first on Fisher's influences in monetary theory (the quantity theory of money, the Fisher effect, Gibson's Paradox, the … monetary theory of business cycles, and the Phillips Curve, and empirics, e.g. distributed lags.). Then we discuss Fisher and …
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tenured economists at 25 U.S. departments. Variants of Hirsch's index that emphasize smaller numbers of highly-cited papers … perform better than Hirsch's original index and have substantial power to explain which economists are tenured at which …
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impact on monetary economics of Laidler's work on the demand for money and the quantity theory of money; the transmission …
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gender, prestige of author's institution, article content (theory vs. empiricism), and whether the author has ties to the …
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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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-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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economics. We found that women in economics were 15% less likely to be promoted to associate professor after controlling for …
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