in academic economics departments. Analyzing the job histories of tenure-track economists hired by the top 35 U ….S. economics departments, we find that T5 publications have a powerful influence on tenure decisions and rates of transition to …

at three leading economics conferences over the 2006- 2012 period. The results show a positive link between conference … improved metrics for other measures of academic success such as the number of citations or abstract views. We document that …

(measured by citations) of each contribution decreases, due to the direct effect of age and the much smaller indirect effects …

In economics many articles are subjected to multiple rounds of refereeing at the same journal, which generates time … social sciences. We examine whether repeated refereeing produces any benefits, using an experiment at one journal that allows … articles by their subsequent citation histories, holding constant their sub-fields, authors' demographics and prior citations …

In February 2015, the editors of eight health economics journals sent out an editorial statement which aims to reduce …

We assess the role played by advisory supervision on the early stage productivity of recent PhDs in economics using a …

constructed dataset which collects the journal publications of all Italian academics working in universities. We find that …

Two of the top economics journals have institutional ties to a specific university, the Quarterly Journal of Economics … (QJE) to Harvard University and the Journal of Political Economy (JPE) to the University of Chicago. Researchers from … articles in their respective home journal. Such home ties and publication bias may harm, but also benefit, article quality. We …

testing ; distorting incentives ; selection bias ; research in economics …