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Evaluation of Researchers : A Life Cycle Analysis of German Academic Economists
Rauber, Michael - 2006
academic economists, we first show that research productivity crucially depends on career age and vintage. Based on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780463
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Happiness of Economists
Feld, Lars P. - 2014
We study the importance of economists' professional situation toward their life satisfaction based on a unique survey … of mostly academic economists. On average, economists report to be highly happy with life. Satisfaction is positively … pressure in recent years is positively related to economists' life satisfaction. An explanation is that economists have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040007
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The Benefits of Being Economics Professor A (and not Z)
Praag, Mirjam van; Praag, Bernard M.S. van - CESifo - 2007
Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the convention in the economics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose last name initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been a first author more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766276
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Do Economic Policymakers Practice What They Preach? The Case of Pension Decisions
Dahan, Momi - 2009
This paper examines whether policymakers, economists at the Israeli Finance Ministry, act in their personal pension … economists' decisions regarding three other important decisions such as buying an apartment, a car and a large appliance, are … specialized policymakers (economists in the Pension Division) and general policymakers (economists in all other Divisions) showing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013156222
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Do Economic Policymakers Practice what they Preach? The Case of Pension Decisions
Dahan, Momi; Kogut, Tehila; Shalem, Moshe - CESifo - 2009
This paper examines whether policymakers, economists at the Israeli Finance Ministry, act in their personal pension … economists' decisions regarding three other important decisions such as buying an apartment, a car and a large appliance, are … specialized policymakers (economists in the Pension Division) and general policymakers (economists in all other Divisions) showing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583678
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External Influence as an Indicator of Scholarly Importance
Chan, Ho Fai - 2013
The external influence of scholarly activity has to date been measured primarily in terms of publications and citations, metrics that also dominate the promotion and grant processes. Yet the array of scholarly activities visible to the outside world are far more extensive and recently developed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075968
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External Influence as an Indicator of Scholarly Importance
Chan, Ho Fai; Frey, Bruno S.; Gallus, Jana; Schaffner, … - CESifo - 2013
The external influence of scholarly activity has to date been measured primarily in terms of publications and citations, metrics that also dominate the promotion and grant processes. Yet the array of scholarly activities visible to the outside world are far more extensive and recently developed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010693472
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How Does the Market Use Citation Data? The Hirsch Index in Economics
Ellison, Glenn - 2010
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137445
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Recent Trends in Co-Authorship in Economics : Evidence from RePEc
Rath, Katharina - 2015
This articles investigates the recent trends in co-authorship in economics. Using data from more than 700.000 journal articles we show that the average number of authors per article has increased over the last years. This process is likely to be continued in the future. In a regression analysis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014982
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Ranking Economists on the Basis of Many Indicators : An Alternative Approach Using RePEc Data
Seiler, Christian - 2012
database in economic sciences containing 33 different indicators for more than 30,000 economists. Based on this bibliographic … overall ranking of economists based on RePEc data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112601