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Recent trends in co-authorship in economics : evidence from RePEc
Rath, Katharina; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2015
This articles investigates the recent trends in co-authorship in economics. Using data from more than 700.000 journal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309542
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Simply a matter of luck & looks? : predicting elections when both the world economy and the psychology of faces count
Garretsen, Harry; Stoker, Janka I.; Alessie, Rob; … - 2014
Economic research shows that candidates have a higher chance of getting (re-)elected when they have the luck that the world economy does well even though this is beyond their control and unrelated to their competence. Psychological research demonstrates that candidates increase their chances if...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010370176
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Reactivity in economic science
Frey, Bruno S. - 2017
matter of course that economics should become a natural science. Such a characterization misses an essential aspect of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011700543
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Population Growth and Carbon Emissions
Casey, Gregory; Galor, Oded - 2016
We provide evidence that lower fertility can simultaneously increase income per capita and lower carbon emissions, eliminating a trade-off central to most policies aimed at slowing global climate change. We estimate the effect of lower fertility on carbon emissions accounting for the fact that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584695
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Women in Economics: Stalled Progress
Lundberg, Shelly; Stearns, Jenna - 2018
within economics has changed. We then review the recent literature on other dimensions of women's relative position in the … promotion rates in economics. Furthermore, the progress of women has stalled relative to that in other disciplines in the past …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984534
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How economics helped shape American Judaism
Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2010
This chapter discusses the strong impact of economic forces, and changes in the economic environment, on American Jewish observance and American Jewish religious institutions in the 20th century. Beginning with the immigrants' experience of dramatic economic change between the old country and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272652
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Mass Reproducibility and Replicability: A New Hope
Brodeur, Abel; Mikola, Derek; Cook, Nikolai - 2024
This study pushes our understanding of research reliability by reproducing and replicating claims from 110 papers in leading economic and political science journals. The analysis involves computational reproducibility checks and robustness assessments. It reveals several patterns. First, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533953
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Article Length and Citation Outcomes
Hasan, Syed; Breunig, Robert - 2020
2010 and 2014 in the top five journals in economics and their citation count in Google Scholar, we find that a one per cent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207726
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Did the "Bologna Process" Achieve Its Goals? 20 Years of Empirical Evidence on Student Enrolment, Study Success and Labour Market Outcomes
Kroher, Martina; Leuze, Kathrin; Thomsen, Stephan L.; … - 2021
years later, we examine whether these goals were met by reviewing quantitative articles from sociology and economics. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882333
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Gender Differences in Economics PhD Field Specializations with Correlated Choices
Sierminska, Eva; Oaxaca, Ronald L. - 2021
to specialize in Labor/Health, Macro/Finance, Industrial Organization, Public Economics, and Development …/Growth/International and are more likely to specialize in Agricultural/Resource/Environmental Economics. Field-specific gender faculty ratios … and expected relative salaries as well as economics department rankings are significant factors for gender doctoral …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882354