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Markets for Reputation : Evidence on Quality and Quantity in Academe
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153301
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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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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
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Comparing the Early Research Performance of PhD Graduates in Labor Economics in Europe and the USA
Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2009
This paper analyzes the early research performance of PhD graduates in labor economics, addressing the following questions: Are there major productivity differences between graduates from American and European institutions? If so, how relevant is the quality of the training received (i.e....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765613
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Pay and Job Rank Amongst Academic Economists in the UK : Is Gender Relevant?
Mumford, Karen - 2019
academic Economists in the UK. Characteristics associated with individual productivity and workplace features are found to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868008
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Co-Authorship and Academic Productivity in Economics : Interaction Maps from the Complex Networks Approach
Molina, Jose Alberto - 2016
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012987686
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Aging in Style : Does How We Write Matter?
Hamermesh, Daniel; Kosnik, Lea-Rachel - 2022
The scholarly impact of academic research matters for academic promotions, influence, relevance to public policy, and others. Focusing on writing style in top-level professional journals, we examine how it changes with age, how stylistic differences and age affect impact, and how style and prior...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014241683
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Who Said or What Said? Estimating Ideological Bias in Views Among Economists
Javdani, Mohsen - 2019
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 …-/non-mainstream, or removing them, significantly reduces economists' reported agreement with statements. This contradicts the image …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859734