publish the best article in an issue of a medium-quality journal like the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics than to … because it is about to appear in prestigious journal X. Moreover, those who allocate levels of research funding, such as in … quality in a mechanical way by using journal prestige ratings. The results in this paper suggest that such tendencies are …

Two of the top economics journals have institutional ties to a specific university, the Quarterly Journal of Economics … (QJE) to Harvard University and the Journal of Political Economy (JPE) to the University of Chicago. Researchers from … articles in their respective home journal. Such home ties and publication bias may harm, but also benefit, article quality. We …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …, other than men being slightly more likely to express an opinion. These differences are idiosyncratic, with no support for …

-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 …