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 …

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 …

There is good reason to think that non-elite programs in economics may be producing relatively more research than in … productivity in economics (and business) using data from the Web of Science (Knowledge) for a broad set of institutions both elite …

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 …

In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor's degree in Economics, arguably an … discriminating against female applicants. What we find is that girls are less likely to apply for a bachelor's degree in Economics to … Maths in high school and this may deter them from applying to study Economics at the university level. However, even among …

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

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 … tenure. A survey of the perceptions of young economists supports the formal statistical analysis. Pursuit of T5 publications …

UK academic research in economics and in many other subjects. But is it possible to design an objective check on, and … measure of, a nation's 'world-leading research'? Following a variant of a method developed in Oswald (2010), I examine … citations data on 450 genuinely world-leading journal articles over the Research Excellence Framework period 2008-2014. The UK …