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

matter of course that economics should become a natural science. Such a characterization misses an essential aspect of a …

We compare Covid-related working papers in economics to non-Covid-related working papers in four dimensions. Based on …

of study. These differences can in most cases be attributed to self-selection. A notable exception is economics. Even … though self-selection is also important, training in economics has an unambiguous influence on the political attitudes: by … the time of graduation, economics students are about 6.2 percentage points more likely than they were as freshmen to agree …

Research on leadership in economics has developed in parallel to the literature in management and psychology and links … fields could profit from enriching their approach with insights from the other field. We review and synthesize the economics … detailed understanding of transactional methods that economists have developed. We link the contributions in economics to a …

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 …

This paper provides a synthesis of the state of knowledge on the economics of skyscrapers. First, we document how …