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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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Structural transformation, marketization, and household production around the world
Bridgman, Benjamin; Duernecker, Georg; Herrendorf, Berthold - 2015 - This version: October 5, 2015
We provide evidence on household and market production in 36 countries since 1960. On average the household sector accounts for almost half of total hours worked. As GDP per capita increases, the employment share of household production in total hours worked initially declines and then hardly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348007
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Geographical origins and economic consequences of language structures
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2016
This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011557658
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Migration and cultural change
Rapoport, Hillel; Sardoschau, Sulin; Silve, Arthur - 2020
which it delivers distinctive testable predictions on the sign and direction of convergence. We then use the World Value …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270567
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Cultural remittances and modern fertility
Melki, Mickael; Rapoport, Hillel; Spolaore, Enrico; … - 2024
We argue that migrants played a significant role in the diffusion of the demographic transition from France to the rest of Europe in the late 19th century. Employing novel data on French immigration from other European regions from 1850 to 1930, we find that higher immigration to France...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015070203
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Awards in economics : towards a new field of inquiry
Frey, Bruno S.; Neckermann, Susanne - 2009
Awards play a large role in the economics profession, which is documented by the large variety and number of awards …. However, little scientific attention has been devoted to them. This paper documents the prevalence of awards in the economics … profession and analyzes the number and type of awards received by the 1,200 leading economists included in Who's Who in Economics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003806044
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Taking the temperature : a meta-ranking of economics journals
Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2016
lists. In our meta-ranking the top five journals are given by: Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy …We construct a meta-ranking of 315 economics journals based on 38 different individual rankings. Our ranking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418008
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Economics : an emerging small world?
Goyal, Sanjeev; Leij, Marco van der; Moraga-González, … - 2004
1970's the world of economics was a collection of islands, with the largest island having about 15% of the population. Two … decades later, in the 1990's, the world of economics was much more integrated, with the largest island covering close to half … believe that economics is an emerging small world. What is it about the network structure that makes the world small? An …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451051
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Classifying top economists using archetypoid analysis
Gralka, Sabine Marlene; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2021
Updating the study by Seiler and Wohlrabe (2013) we use archetypoid analysis to classify top economists. The approach allows us to identify typical characteristics of extreme (archetypal) values in a multivariate data set. In contrast to its predecessor, the archetypal analysis, archetypoids...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599140
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The influence of Covid-19 on publications in economics : bibliometric evidence from five working paper series
Bürgi, Constantin; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2022
We compare Covid-related working papers in economics to non-Covid-related working papers in four dimensions. Based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013255865