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 …

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 …

This articles investigates the recent trends in co-authorship in economics. Using data from more than 700.000 journal …

Academic economists today are caught in a "Publication Impossibility Theorem System" or PITS. To further their careers …

Economists, and also economic research institutes, differ in their attitudes towards desirability of economic policies …

remains even in the age of Artificially Intelligent Learning Machines and Big Data. Many academic economists take it as a … matter of course that economics should become a natural science. Such a characterization misses an essential aspect of a …

provide a deeper understanding of the current theoretical literature on household economics by means of a survey of its …

Academic economists today are caught in a “Publication Impossibility Theorem System” or PITS. To further their careers …