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Breit, William; Hirsch, Barry T. - 2009

This paper uses as source material twenty-three autobiographical essays by Nobel economists presented since 1984 at … one planned in advance but one that evolved via the marketplace for ideas. -- Nobel economists ; economic thought …

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The academic origins of economics faculty

Jones, Todd R.; Sloan, Arielle A. - 2021

We use roster data of 96 top U.S. economics departments to document the academic origins of their tenure-track faculty. Academic origins may have implications for how undergraduate (B.A.) and doctoral (Ph.D.) students are trained and placed, as well as the type of research produced. We find that...

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Pay and job rank amongst academic economists in the UK : is gender relevant?

Mumford, Karen; Sechel, Cristina - 2019

academic Economists in the UK. Characteristics associated with individual productivity and workplace features are found to be …

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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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003925253

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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