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Publishing economics: how slow? why slow? is slow productive? fixing slow?
Hadavand, Aboozar; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Wilson, Wesley W. - 2021
Publishing in economics proceeds much more slowly on average than in the natural sciences, and more slowly than in … round of re-submission at the top economics journals is productive of additional subsequent citations; but conditional on re …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604139
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Cigarette taxes, smoking, and health in the long run
Friedson, Andrew; Li, Moyan; Meckel, Katherine; Rees, … - 2021
Medical experts have argued forcefully that using cigarettes harms health, prompting the adoption of myriad anti-smoking policies. The association between smoking and mortality may, however, be driven by unobserved factors, making it difficult to discern the underlying long-term causal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604142
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Contributions of Zvi Griliches
Heckman, James J. (contributor) - 2006
In this article, I summarize Griliches' contributions to economics and to applied econometrics. -- social rate of …"In this article, I summarize Griliches' contributions to economics and to applied econometrics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003339778
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Citations in economics : measurement, uses and impacts
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2015
I describe and compare sources of data on citations in economics and the statistics that can be constructed from them …-specialties in economics and present evidence on the history and heterogeneity of those journals' impacts and the marginal citation … universities to rank economics departments by various measures and to demonstrate the importance of intra- and interdepartmental …
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Private notes on Gary Becker
Heckman, James J. - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010358858
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010477885
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Gary Becker : model economic scientist
Heckman, James J. - 2015
This paper presents Gary Becker's approach to conducting creative, empirically fruitful economic research. It describes the traits and methodology that made him such a productive and influential scholar.
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Introduction to a theory of the allocation of time by Gary Becker
Heckman, James J. - 2014
developed in this paper remained a pillar of his later work on the economics of the family and the economics of nonmarket … substitution effects. Its continuing relevance in empirical economics is a testimony to its power. …
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The race between demand and supply : Tinbergen's pioneering studies of earnings inequality
Heckman, James J. - 2018
Understanding inequality and devising policies to alleviate it was a central focus of Jan Tinbergen's lifetime research. He was far ahead of his time in many aspects of his work. This essay places his work in the perspective of research on inequality in his time and now, focusing on his studies...
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The third mission in the academic profession : empirical insights into academic identities
Püttmann, Vitus; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2022
In line with the growing relevance of higher education and science for societal development and innovation processes, there has been a steady increase in the salience of interrelations with the extra-academic environment in the context of academics' work. Insights into the status of this...
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