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 …

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 use roster data of 96 top U.S. economics departments to document the academic origins of their tenure-track faculty …

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 …

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 …

The antidepressant pill is an important modern commodity. Its growing role in the world has been largely ignored by … researchers in economics departments and business schools. Scholars may be unaware how many citizens and employees now take these …

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

-representation suggest. Focusing on a panel of leading economists we find that men are more willing than women to express an opinion and are … economics profession and for promoting a genuine diversity of views …

The previously documented trend toward more co- and multi-authored research in economics is partly (perhaps 20 percent …