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Publishing and Promotion in Economics : The Tyranny of the Top Five
Heckman, James J. - 2018
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 …
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An Examination of the Reliability of Prestigious Scholarly Journals : Evidence and Implications for Decision-Makers
Oswald, Andrew J. - 2015
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 …
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Home Bias in Top Economics Journals
Bethmann, Dirk; Bransch, Felix; Kvasnicka, Michael; … - 2023
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 …
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Combining Administrative and Survey Data to Improve Income Measurement
Meyer, Bruce - 2019
We describe methods of combining administrative and survey data to improve the measurement of income. We begin by decomposing the total survey error in the mean of survey reports of dollars received from a government transfer program. We decompose this error into three parts, generalized...
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An Empirical Total Survey Error Decomposition Using Data Combination
Meyer, Bruce - 2019
Survey error is known to be pervasive and to bias even simple, but important estimates of means, rates, and totals, such as poverty statistics and the unemployment rate. To summarize and analyze the extent, sources, and consequences of survey error, we define empirical counterparts of key...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870351
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Missing Data in Imputed Highest Grade Completed in the 2015-2018 NBER CPS Extracts
Hersch, Joni - 2019
In 2015, the Current Population Survey (CPS) eliminated three questions related to educational attainment. These questions are used by the NBER to calculate the variable, "Imputed Highest Grade Completed" (ihigrdc) in their Monthly Outgoing Rotation Group (MORG) extracts. Imputed Highest Grade...
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A Walk on the Wild Side : 'Predatory' Journals and Information Asymmetries in Scientific Evaluations
Bagues, Manuel - 2017
In recent years the academic world has experienced a mushrooming of journals that falsely pretend to be legitimate academic outlets. We study this phenomenon using information from 46,000 researchers seeking promotion in Italian academia. About 5% of them have published in journals included in...
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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...
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Pay and Job Rank Amongst Academic Economists in the UK : Is Gender Relevant?
Mumford, Karen - 2019
This article presents and explores a rich new data source to analyse the determinants of pay and job rank amongst academic Economists in the UK. Characteristics associated with individual productivity and workplace features are found to be important determinants of the relative wage and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868008
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Citations in Economics : Measurement, Uses and Impacts
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2016
I describe and compare sources of data on citations in economics and the statistics that can be constructed from them …-specialties in economics and present evidence on the history and heterogeneity of those journals' impacts and the marginal citation … universities to rank economics departments by various measures and to demonstrate the importance of intra- and interdepartmental …
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