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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. Constructing data sets of the post-publication citation histories of articles published in the "Top 5" journals in the 1970s and the 2000s, I examine distributions and life...

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An Examination of the Reliability of Prestigious Scholarly Journals : Evidence and Implications for Decision-Makers

Oswald, Andrew J. - 2015

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 … publish the best article in an issue of a medium-quality journal like the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics than to …

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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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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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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...

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Wellbeing Rankings

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2022

Combining data on around four million respondents from the Gallup World Poll and the US Daily Tracker Poll we rank 164 countries, the 50 states of the United States and the District of Colombia on eight wellbeing measures. These are four positive affect measures - life satisfaction, enjoyment,...

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Tracking When Ranking Matters

Landaud, Fanny; Maurin, Eric - 2022

This paper investigates the effect of grouping students by prior achievement into different classes (or schools) in settings where students are competing for admission to programs offering only a limited number of places. We first develop a model that identifies the conditions under which the...

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Occupational Choice and the Spirit of Capitalism

Doepke, Matthias - 2015

The British Industrial Revolution triggered a reversal in the social order of society whereby the landed elite was replaced by industrial capitalists rising from the middle classes as the economically dominant group. Many observers have linked this transformation to the contrast in values...

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Are Attitudes Towards Economic Risk Heritable? Analyses Using the Australian Twin Study of Gambling

Le, Anh T. - 2010

This study employs multiple regression models based on DeFries and Fulker (1985), and a large sample of twins, to assess heritability in attitudes towards economic risk, and the extent to which this heritability differs between males and females. Consistent with Cesarini, Dawes, Johannesson,...

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