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The value of peripatetic economists : a sesqui-difference evaluation of Bob Gregory

Hamermesh, Daniel S. (contributor) - 2005

substantial monetary impact of visiting economists. Less tangible additional impacts in terms of research style also clearly …

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Early career research production in economics : does mentoring matter?

García, Andrés; Otero, Jesús G.; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2018

We assess the role played by advisory supervision on the early stage productivity of recent PhDs in economics using a tailor-made data set based on RePEc. After allowing for the potential effects of other relevant determinants, including gender and field of specialisation, we find as expected...

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Aging in style : does how we write matter?

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Kosnik, Lea-Rachel - 2022

The scholarly impact of academic research matters for academic promotions, influence, relevance to public policy, and others. Focusing on writing style in top-level professional journals, we examine how it changes with age, how stylistic differences and age affect impact, and how style and prior...

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The economic and demographic transition, mortality, and comparative development

Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2013

We propose a unified growth theory to investigate the mechanics generating the economic and demographic transition, and the role of mortality differences for comparative development. The framework can replicate the quantitative patterns in historical time series data and in contemporaneous...

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The brain drain : curse or boon?

Commander, Simon (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Review of the recent trends in development economics research: with experience from the federal region of Kurdistan

Heshmati, Almas (contributor) - 2007

This study is a review of the recent trends in development economics research. The focus is on the development in the recent decades as a result of increased globalization of knowledge, technologies and economies. In particular I look at the development in a number area where similar trends are...

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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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Age, cohort and co-authorship

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2015

The previously documented trend toward more co- and multi-authored research in economics is partly (perhaps 20 percent) due to different research styles of scholars in different birth cohorts (of different ages). Most of the trend reflects profession-wide changes in research style. Older...

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Lessons from the laureates

Breit, William; Hirsch, Barry T. - 2009

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 …

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Male and female voices in economics

Sievertsen, Hans Henrik; Smith, Sarah - 2022

-representation suggest. Focusing on a panel of leading economists we find that men are more willing than women to express an opinion and are …

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