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The evolution of citizenship : economic and institutional determinants

Bertocchi, Graziella (contributor); … - 2006

We investigate the origin and evolution of the legal institution of citizenship from a political economy perspective. We compile a new data set on citizenship laws across countries of the world which documents how these institutions have evolved in the postwar period. We show that, despite a...

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Contracts between legal persons

Kornhauser, Lewis A.; MacLeod, William Bentley - 2010

Contract law and the economics of contract have, for the most part, developed independently of each other. In this essay, we briefly review the notion of a contract from the perspective of lawyer, and then use this framework to organize the economics literature on contract. The title, Contracts...

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Ancestral norms, legal origins, and female empowerment

Brodeur, Abel; Mabeu, Marie Christelle; Pongou, Roland - 2020

A large literature documents persistent impacts of formal historical institutions. However, very little is known about how these institutions interact with ancestral traditions to determine long-term economic and social outcomes. This paper addresses this question by studying the persistent...

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Do men and women-economists choose the same research fields? : Evidence from top-50 departments

Dolado, Juan J. (contributor); … - 2005

. -- men and women-economists ; research fields ; gender segregation ; path-dependence ; tobit and probit models …

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Comparing the early research performance of PhD graduates in labor economics in Europe and the USA

Cardoso, Ana Rute (contributor); … - 2008

This paper analyzes the early research performance of PhD graduates in labor economics, addressing the following questions: Are there major productivity differences between graduates from American and European institutions? If so, how relevant is the quality of the training received (i.e....

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Does teaching load affect faculty size?

Becker, William E.; Greene, William H.; Siegfried, John J. - 2009

Random effects estimates using panel data for 42 colleges and universities over 16 years reveal that the economics faculty size of universities offering a Ph.D. in economics is determined primarily by the long-run average number of Ph.D. degrees awarded annually; the number of full-time faculty...

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The benefits of being economics professor A (and not Z)

Praag, Mirjam van (contributor); … - 2007

"Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the convention in the economics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose last name initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been a first author more...

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What makes a good conference? : analysing the preferences of labor economists

Borghans, Lex; Romans, Margo; Sauermann, Jan - 2010

respect to conference characteristics. Based on a sample of European labour economists, preferences are measured using the … vignette approach where participants are asked to choose between hypothetical European Association of Labour Economists (EALE … location of the conference. There is substantial heterogeneity in the taste of labour economists especially with respect to …

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Markets for reputation : evidence on quality and quantity in academe

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2009

reputation? Using evidence for academic economists, we find that, conditional on its impact, the quantity of output has no or …

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Charity and favoritism in the field : are female economists nicer (to each other)?

Abrevaya, Jason; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2010

Using a very large sample of matched author-referee pairs, we examine how the gender of referees and authors affects the former's recommendations. Relying on changing matches of authors and referees, we find no evidence of gender differences among referees in charitableness toward authors; nor...

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