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

In this essay I review Sylvia Nasar's long awaited new history of economics, Grand Pursuit. I describe how the book is … an economic history of the period from 1850-1950, with distinguished economists' stories inserted in appropriate places …. Nasar's goal is to show how economists work, but also to show that they are people too – with more than enough warts and …

possibly overlapping projects. We bring our model to the data by analyzing the coauthorship network of economists registered in … institutions and compare them with the economics funding program of the National Science Foundation. Our results indicate that …

We explore the relationship between collaborations in writing papers and the academic productivity of economists and …, particularly, we describe the magnitude and intensity of co-authorship among economists. To that end, we employ interaction maps …-WOK, published by 5,188 economists from Spanish institutions, and their co-authors, up to 8,202 researchers, from 2002 to 2014, to …

researchers in economics departments and business schools. Scholars may be unaware how many citizens and employees now take these …

We examine the role of financial aid in shaping the formation of human capital in economics. Specifically, we study the … trajectories, and labor market outcomes of a generation of Italian economists with special focus on gender gaps and the role of …

We develop a theory of the market for individual reputation, an indicator of regard by oneﾒ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 …

There exists a long-standing debate about the influence of ideology in economics. Surprisingly, however, there is no … economists in 19 countries, we examine the effect of ideological bias on views among economists. Participants were asked to … evaluate statements from prominent economists on different topics, while source attribution for each statement was randomized …

This paper provides an overview of the relationship between economics and religion. It first considers the effects of …