This paper uses as source material twenty-three autobiographical essays by Nobel economists presented since 1984 at … importance of real-world events coupled with a desire for rigor and relevance, the critical influence of teachers, the necessity … one planned in advance but one that evolved via the marketplace for ideas. -- Nobel economists ; economic thought …

economics as a field does not appreciate and work on what economists collectively prefer. …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 …

We use roster data of 96 top U.S. economics departments to document the academic origins of their tenure-track faculty …

In this essay I review Sylvia Nasar's long awaited new history of economics, Grand Pursuit. I describe how the book is … an economic history of the period from 1850-1950, with distinguished economists' stories inserted in appropriate places …. Nasar's goal is to show how economists work, but also to show that they are people too - with more than enough warts and …

possibly overlapping projects. We bring our model to the data by analyzing the coauthorship network of economists registered in … institutions and compare them with the economics funding program of the National Science Foundation. Our results indicate that …

"Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the convention in the economics discipline and …

The previously documented trend toward more co- and multi-authored research in economics is partly (perhaps 20 percent …

-representation suggest. Focusing on a panel of leading economists we find that men are more willing than women to express an opinion and are … economics profession and for promoting a genuine diversity of views. …

Economics departments, according to the rankings available on the Econphd.net website. We document that women are unevenly …. -- men and women-economists ; research fields ; gender segregation ; path-dependence ; tobit and probit models …

This paper analyzes the early research performance of PhD graduates in labor economics, addressing the following … the subsequent job placement institution? The population under study consists of labor economics PhD graduates who …