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 …

possibly overlapping projects. We bring our model to the data by analyzing the coauthorship network of economists registered in … the RePEc Author Service. We rank the authors and research institutions according to their contribution to the aggregate … institutions and compare them with the economics funding program of the National Science Foundation. Our results indicate that …

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 …

We develop a theory of the market for individual reputation, an indicator of regard by one’s peers and others. The … reputation? Using evidence for academic economists, we find that, conditional on its impact, the quantity of output has no or …

published in empirical economics and what types of journal articles are replicated. We find that from 1974 to 2014 less than 0 ….1% of publications in the top-50 economics journals were replications. We do not find empirical support that mandatory data …

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 …

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

We analyze the pay and position of 1,009 faculty members who teach in doctoral-granting economics departments at fifty …

We study gender differences in the evaluation of submissions to economics conferences. Using data from the Annual …-2017), and the Spring Meeting of Young Economists (2017), we find that all-female-authored papers are 3.2 p.p. (6.8%) less likely …