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 …

retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long … economic theory of individual utility. -- life satisfaction ; retirement ; unemployment ; identity ; social norm …

,083 economists obtained from the RePEc database and identify six archetypes. These are mainly characterized by ratios of published …

We document economists' opinions about what is worth knowing and ask (i) which research objectives economic research … economic researchers who publish in English. We report three main findings. First, economists’ opinions are vastly … economics as a field does not appreciate and work on what economists collectively prefer. …

academic economists, we first show that research productivity crucially depends on career age and vintage. Based on the …