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The Academic Origins of Economics Faculty
Jones, Todd; Sloan, Arielle - 2022
We use roster data of 96 top U.S. economics departments to document the academic origins of their tenure-track faculty. Academic origins may have implications for how undergraduate (B.A.) and doctoral (Ph.D.) students are trained and placed, as well as the type of research produced. We find that...
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A Generation of Italian Economists
Nano, Enrico; Panizza, Ugo; Viarengo, Martina - 2021
trajectories, and labor market outcomes of a generation of Italian economists with special focus on gender gaps and the role of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013226786
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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 …
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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)...
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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...
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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...
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