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Anonymous Job Applications of Fresh Ph.D. Economists
Krause-Pilatus, Annabelle - 2011
behavior in hiring. This paper analyzes the potential of this approach in a randomized experiment with fresh Ph.D. economists …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118279
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A Guide and Advice for Economists on the U.S. Junior Academic Job Market (2011-2012 Edition)
Cawley, John - 2011
This guide, updated for the 2011-12 job market season, describes the U. S. academic market for new Ph.D. economists and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120141
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Where Do New Ph.D. Economists Go? Evidence from Recent Initial Job Placements
Chen, Jihui - 2012
We use data from the 2007-2008 Ph.D. economist job market to investigate initial job placement in terms of job location, job type, and job rank. Our results suggest gender differences in all three dimensions of job placement. Relative to their male counterparts, female candidates are less (more)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097876
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Fame and the Fortune of Academic Economists : How the Market Rewards Influential Research in Economics
Hilmer, Christiana E. - 2012
We analyze the pay and position of 1,009 faculty members who teach in doctoral-granting economics departments at fifty-three large public universities in the United States. Using the Web of Science, we have identified the journal articles published by these scholars and the number of times each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098464
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Views Among Economists : Professional Consensus or Point-Counterpoint?
Gordon, Roger H. - 2013
To what degree do economists disagree about key economic questions? To provide evidence, we make use of the responses … to a series of questions posed to a distinguished panel of economists put together by the Chicago School of Business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087400
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Economic History or History of Economics? A Review Essay on Sylvia Nasar's Grand Pursuit : The Story of Economic Genius
Ashenfelter, Orley - 2012
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 …'s remarkably different conception in The Worldly Philosophers. I also discuss more generally the question of why economists might …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113091
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Markets for Reputation : Evidence on Quality and Quantity in Academe
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 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/10013153301
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The Benefits of Being Economics Professor A (and Not Z)
van Praag, Mirjam - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777263
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Superstar Economists : Coauthorship Networks and Research Output
Hsieh, Chih-Sheng - 2018
possibly overlapping projects. We bring our model to the data by analyzing the coauthorship network of economists registered in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012907829
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Male Gatekeepers Gender Bias in the Publishing Process?
Bransch, Felix - 2017
Using data on articles published in the top-five economic journals in the period 1991 to 2010, we explore whether the gender composition of editorial boards is related to the publishing success of female authors and to the quality of articles that get published. Our results show that female...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945221