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How Does the Market Use Citation Data? The Hirsch Index in Economics
Ellison, Glenn - 2010
A large literature following Hirsch (2005) has proposed citation-based indexes that could be used to rank academics. This paper examines how well several such indexes match labor market outcomes using data on the citation records of young tenured economists at 25 U.S. departments. Variants of...
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Endogeneous Matching in University-Industry Collaboration : Theory and Empirical Evidence from the UK
Banal-Estañol, Albert; Macho-Stadler, Ines; … - 2021
We develop a two-sided matching model to analyze collaboration between heterogeneous academics and firms. We predict a positive assortative matching in terms of both scientific ability and affinity for type of research, but negative assortative in terms of ability on one side and affinity in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315734
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The Sources of the Gender Gap in Economics Enrolment
Tonin, Mirco; Wahba, Jackline - CESifo - 2014
In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor’s degree in Economics, arguably an … discriminating against female applicants. What we find is that girls are less likely to apply for a bachelor’s degree in Economics to … Maths in high school and this may deter them from applying to study Economics at the university level. However, even among …
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Evaluation of Researchers : A Life Cycle Analysis of German Academic Economists
Rauber, Michael - 2006
In this paper we argue that any meaningful bibliometric evaluation of researchers needs to take into account that …
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Economists in the Pits?
Frey, Bruno S. - 2021
Academic economists today are caught in a "Publication Impossibility Theorem System" or PITS. To further their careers, they are required to publish in A-journals, but this is impossible for the vast majority because there are few slots open in such journals. Such academic competition is held to...
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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 … citations, the JEL classification, the number of journal pages and the length of the title …
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Endogeneous Matching in University-Industry Collaboration: Theory and Empirical Evidence from the UK
Banal-Estañol, Albert; Macho-Stadler, Ines; … - CESifo - 2013
We develop a two-sided matching model to analyze collaboration between heterogeneous academics and firms. We predict a positive assortative matching in terms of both scientific ability and affinity for type of research, but negative assortative in terms of ability on one side and affinity in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010681221
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The Importance of Financial Resources for Student Loan Repayment
Lochner, Lance - 2013
Government student loan programs must balance the need to enforce repayment among borrowers who can afford to make their payments with some form of forgiveness or repayment assistance for those who cannot. Using unique survey and administrative data from the Canada Student Loan Program, we show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071390
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Why Academic Quality in Higher Education Declines
Meier, Volker - 2015
We investigate the choice of quality, or academic content, in higher education in a two-sector model. Individuals are differentiated according to their cost of acquiring human capital. A higher academic quality increases productivity upon training, but is also associated with higher cost of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015354
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Foreign Peer Effects and STEM Major Choice
Anelli, Massimo - 2017
Since the 1980s the United States has faced growing disinterest and high attrition from STEM majors. Over the same period, foreign-born enrollment in U.S. higher education has increased steadily. This paper examines whether foreign-born peers affect the likelihood American college students...
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